All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

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

The team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology publishes measurement data crucial for advanced research in ...

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

Researchers suggest that certain gases detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets could be key indicators in the search for ...

An international team of researchers has discovered a super-Earth that will allow astronomers to test new hypotheses in the ...

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

Astronomers have examined infant planets orbiting a star 370 light-years away, seeing the exomoon forming disks of gas and ...

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

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

The solar-powered Blue Ghost shut down on Sunday evening (March 16), shortly after the sun set over its lunar locale. The ...

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