Astronomers reveal some hot Jupiters formed via smooth disk migration. (Image: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences/College of Arts and Sciences/The University of Tokyo) Astronomers have uncovered new ...

Despite decades of warnings, governments and private companies have continued launching missions with little plan for what ...

Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets tend to have more circular orbits. This split coincides with several other ...

UCLA astrophysicists have now measured the shape of the orbits of exoplanets—from the size of Jupiter down to the size of ...