New UCR research shows that the search for life beyond Earth could benefit from a statistical approach that prioritizes ...

An oddity among exoplanets, L 98-59 d is (so far) in a class all its own, but astronomers expect powerful new telescopes will ...

Astronomers have discovered a brand-new class of exoplanet unlike anything previously known. This discovery, featured in ...

There's so little we know about circumbinary planets—planets that orbit two stars instead of one—that they can feel like the stuff of fantasy. And for good reason: to date, we've only confirmed the ...

There's an iconic scene in the original Star Wars where Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker watches a double sunset above Tatooine, ...