A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...
Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...
NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.
Life could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...
"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...
Experts analyzed satellite imagery of planetary surface cracks and compared them with Earth's geologic features, searching ...
An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, ...
Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has achieved groundbreaking discoveries in the field of exoplanet studies.
GJ 1214 b, nicknamed Enaiposha, is a planet discovered 47 light-years away that has been reclassified from a mini-Neptune to a "super-Venus" due to its atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide and aerosols.
For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.