A scientist has learned more about the violent processes that rip atmospheres away from planets, finding that squashing and squeezing by a parent star can contribute to this process. The research ...

This transiting causes a tiny dip in light from a star that signals the passage of a planet. Not only has this transit method been used to discover thousands of worlds in NASA's exoplanet catalog ...

Ever since William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, astronomers have been eager to find new planets on the outer edge of the solar system. But after the discovery of Neptune in 1846 ...