We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...
Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some ...
Young, close-orbiting exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may form farther from their stars and migrate inward or lose their ...
Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...
Our solar system, in contrast ... Kepler-62 is an example, with five planets that take about 6, 12, 18, 122, and 267 days to orbit their star (period ratios of 2.2, 1.5, 6.7, and 2.2, respectively).
The JWST has spotted the presence of carbon dioxide on HR 8799’s four known planets, part of a system astronomers use to ...
The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...
GJ 1214 b, nicknamed Enaiposha, is a planet discovered 47 light-years away that has been reclassified from a mini-Neptune to ...
A distant exoplanet discovered, named Enaiposha, is unlike anything found in our own solar system, similar to a "super-Venus" ...
Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...