A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...
NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.
Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...
Life could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...
An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, ...
Experts analyzed satellite imagery of planetary surface cracks and compared them with Earth's geologic features, searching ...
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.
For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.
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.