A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...

In a new, groundbreaking discovery that has captivated the astronomy community, scientists have confirmed the presence of not ...

In research highlighted in a new paper, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, Scientia Senior Lecturer Ben Montet and PhD candidate Brendan McKee analysed changes in the timing of a known ...

A superior conjunction occurs when Venus is the farthest from Earth, on the other side of the sun. Conversely, astronomers ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

Astronomers discover a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune 250 light years away from our solar system. These planets offer a ...

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star, one of our closest stellar neighbours.

17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system ... the second-nearest star system to ...

Planets beyond our solar system are called exoplanets ... The innermost planet has a mass 26% of Earth, the second has a mass ...

NASA's Webb telescope has captured images of multiple planets in a nearby star system, confirming that Webb can infer exoplanet atmospheres' chemistry.