Four small, newly discovered worlds are less than six light-years away from Earth, and their discovery reinforces a ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Giant Exoplanets in HR 8799 System Likely Formed Like Jupiter and Saturn The first exoplanet was discovered in the 1990s, but ...

Scientists have confirmed the existence of four small, rocky planets orbiting Barnard's Star — the second closest star system ...

The four exoplanets orbit Barnard’s Star so closely that their years last only a few Earth days. They are probably rocky and, ...

What can a star’s behavior teach scientists about the formation and evolution of sub-Neptune exoplanets, which comprise one ...

Researchers are using basalt spectra to study exoplanets and search for water with the James Webb Space Telescope. By ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was recently used to capture direct images of four Saturn-like exoplanets in a solar system 130 light-years away.

Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some ...

What can methyl halides, which are gases that consist of one carbon and three hydrogen atoms while being attached to a ...

The recent findings up the number of exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star from one to at least three, possibly four, as ...