A total of four small, rocky exoplanets were found circling Barnard’s Star, a red dwarf with a mass about one-sixth […] ...

Many protoplanetary disks in which new planets are formed are much smaller than thought. Using the Atacama Large ...

A peculiar exoplanet named Enaiposha challenges our understanding of celestial bodies, blending traits of mini-Neptunes and ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor and thick clouds on LTT 9779 b, an ultra-hot Neptune locked in a ...

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

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

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

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

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

What can a star’s behavior teach scientists about the formation and evolution of sub-Neptune exoplanets, which comprise one ...