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Star's oversized debris ring challenges theories of planet formation... 
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Scientists have discovered the smallest exoplanets yet known, and both represent the closest we have come to finding Earth's twin. Using NASA's Kepler telescope, researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge discovered these planets orbiting a sun-like star called Kepler-20 that is 950 light-years from Earth.
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The path of a Jupiter-size planet distorted the debris disk around the star Beta Pictoris. Due to the planet's flat orbit, astronomers once thought a second planet could have caused the distortion.
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Astronomy | exoplanet | Astronomers may have, for the first time, directly imaged a planet still in the process of formation, gathering material from a debris disk surrounding its par...
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An unseen world might be disturbing the orbits of several objects in the outer solar system, new calculations hint.
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"Life is not a miracle. It is a natural phenomenon, and can be expected to appear whenever there is a planet whose conditions duplicate those of the Earth." -Harold Urey One of the most exciting investigations going on right now...
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Simulations show that during the early evolution of the Solar System, there might have been a fifth giant planet that simply got ejected. This was due to the 'Jumping Jupiter' scenario.
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At a joint meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division of Planetary Science and the European Planetary Science Conference being held in Nantes, France, a team from McDonald Observatory at The University of Texas at Austin announced their discovery: Kepler-18's exoplanets orbit in resonance with one another.
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