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 ...
The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...
The four exoplanets orbit Barnard’s Star so closely that their years last only a few Earth days. They are probably rocky and, ...
Astrophysicists have once again enriched our knowledge of the cosmos with a new discovery: two small planets orbiting ...
The recent findings up the number of exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star from one to at least three, possibly four, as ...
Four small, newly discovered worlds are less than six light-years away from Earth, and their discovery reinforces a cautionary tale from planet hunting’s prehistory ...
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.
Researchers are using basalt spectra to study exoplanets and search for water with the James Webb Space Telescope. By ...
This finding provides compelling evidence that the giant planets in HR 8799 formed through core accretion, a process similar ...