"What surprised us, at the end, was how effective this type of impact could be in explaining Mercury's unusual structure ...

Only the three stars that make up the Alpha Centauri system lie closer to us. The planets newly discovered around Barnard’s ...

A spacecraft operated by the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has made its final flyby of ...

"That gives us a lot of assurance that these aren't phantoms in the data." These are among the smallest planets yet found with this observing technique. The scientists hope this will mark a new ...

The nearest single star to the sun, Barnard’s star, has a brood of planets all its own. The red dwarf star, about six light-years from Earth, hosts four close-in planets each about two to three ...

Planets beyond our solar system are called exoplanets. Those orbiting Barnard's star are among the smallest of the more than 5,800 exoplanets discovered since the 1990s as astronomers refine their ...

“Patients at Yale New Haven Hospital will now have access to the most advanced world-class treatment options through the use ...