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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

A fresh look at past data reveals that exoplanets with masses similar to Jupiter formed much sooner than previously thought, ...