A team working with data from the dearly departed Kepler space telescope has reported a possible moon orbiting an exoplanet some 5,000 light years away. It falls somewhere between the size of Earth ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare planetary system that dances to a cosmic rhythm. Located 105 light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices, HD 110067 hosts six planets roughly the size of ...

Artist’s concept of a Neptune-sized planet, left, around a blue, A-type star. UC Berkeley astronomers have discovered a hard-to-find gas giant around one of these bright, but short-lived, stars, right ...

There aren't a lot of Hot Neptunes in the galaxy, and it's not entirely clear why. A Hot Neptune is, as the name implies, a Neptune-sized planet orbiting within 1 AU of its host star. While we've ...

Distribution of close-in exoplanets as a function of their radius and orbital period. Green and blue contours show the approximate boundaries of the Neptunian desert and savanna. White squares ...