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 ...
Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...
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.
It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...
The four exoplanets orbit Barnard’s Star so closely that their years last only a few Earth days. They are probably rocky and, ...
MAROON-X was specifically designed to detect tiny exoplanets orbiting red dwarf stars by detecting the minuscule ...
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, ...
For years, astronomers have searched the cosmos for planets capable of supporting life. Most efforts focus on the "habitable zone," the region around a star where a planet could have liquid water. But ...