At a distance of just over four light years, Proxima Centauri is our nearest stellar neighbor and is known to be a very ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

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

The Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) telescope has been imagined as a habitable planet hunter, but it could be so much ...

What if the insides of planets are more complicated than we thought? A new study from scientists at UCLA and Princeton ...

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

The Estes Valley Astronomical Society is offering a free public lecture Saturday, March 29th at the Estes Park Memorial ...

The search for habitable planets has taken a leap forward with new space telescopes probing exoplanet atmospheres for life.

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Last year, astronomers announced that a planet orbits Barnard’s star. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of three more.

Scientists already know that a planet must be in the “Goldilocks zone”—not too hot and not too cold—to have liquid water, a ...