Forming an estimated 3 million years ago, the planet discovered by astronomers at the University of North Carolina is in its ...

A "baby" planet that astronomers recently observed some 430 light-years from Earth may be the youngest planet ever discovered. Forming an estimated 3 million years ago, the planet may seem old to us.

Most of these are in the Milky Way, though scientists think they discovered the first planet within another galaxy two years ago. Statistically speaking, the growing tally only scratches the ...

The celestial body is the youngest transiting planet found to date. Madyson Barber, a grad student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was researching young transiting systems in ...

A newly discovered baby exoplanet called IRAS 04125+2902 b is challenging our current understanding of planet formation.

Scientists have discovered two “super-Earth” exoplanets, one of which is in its star’s habitable zone. That means liquid water could exist on its surface. The planet, known as LP 890-9c or ...

University of North Carolina researchers have recently discovered a baby exoplanet that could challenge our current understanding of how planets form in newly-minted solar systems. Designated IRAS ...

To understand how planets evolve over time, astronomers must observe them as snapshots and then compare their properties at each stage. The transit method of planet detection, in which observers ...