The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...
What can a star’s behavior teach scientists about the formation and evolution of sub-Neptune exoplanets, which comprise one ...
Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...
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 ...
What can methyl halides, which are gases that consist of one carbon and three hydrogen atoms while being attached to a ...
Scientists have confirmed the existence of four small, rocky planets orbiting Barnard's Star — the second closest star system ...
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.
The four exoplanets orbit Barnard’s Star so closely that their years last only a few Earth days. They are probably rocky and, ...
It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...
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 ...
A fresh look at past data reveals that exoplanets with masses similar to Jupiter formed much sooner than previously thought, ...