"In our solar system, the most massive moon is Ganymede, which is still extremely small compared to what we are inferring ...

According to the new research, astronomers have employed the Very Large Telescope's technology, known as GRAVITY and have ...

"We've often seen the 'baby pictures' of planets forming, but until now, the 'teenage years' have been a missing link." ...

A new study published as a pre-peer-reviewed paper on arXiv and accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics suggests ...

After decades of searching, astronomers might finally be on the verge of discovering thefirst confirmed exomoon, a natural satellite orbiting a distant exoplanet. If the findings hold up, it could be ...

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...

For this exoplanet and its putative moon, the process would be “nearly identical with that of Io [and Jupiter] except that [WASP-39b] is very close to the star,” says Apurva Oza of the California ...

NASA’s Kepler data reveals HD 137010 b, a cold, Earth-sized candidate. Though freezing cold, it offers valuable insights into planetary formation and life’s potential elsewhere.

The James Webb Space Telescope measured a potential moon-forming disk encircling an exoplanet, NASA recently announced, inviting researchers to observe and study moon formation as it happens, while ...

A new discovery suggests the possibility of an exomoon with an unprecedentedly large mass, thousands of times larger than any ...

How do moons form around gas giant planets? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated how circumplanetary disks ...