More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

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 ...

"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...

These rather small planets are a stone's throw from Earth in galactic terms, but were too small for previous instruments to ...

Two space missions reached their conclusion: one with a splashdown, the other with a quiet lunar death. And thrilling new ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

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

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...