Scientists have discovered over 4,000 exoplanets outside of our Solar System, according to NASA's Exoplanet Archive. Some of these planets orbit multiple stars at the same time. Certain planets are so ...

How does a planet’s size influence its orbit around its parent star? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a team of ...

Hundreds of distant planets may be far larger than scientists once believed. New research reveals that many exoplanets found by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) might have been ...

Mars could have lost its liquid water, the key ingredient of life, because it is small, according to a study. Washington University researchers say that the Red Planet's size may be the key reason it ...

Artist's rendition of Mars with Earth-like surface water. We have a fleet of robots seeking out habitability on Mars, but is the planet too small for life in the first place? A new study suggests that ...

Natalie Hinkel receives funding from the NASA Nexus for Exoplanet System Science research coordination network based out of Arizona State University. This funding is used to research exoplanet ...