Adi Robertson is a senior tech and policy editor focused on VR, online platforms, and free expression. Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011. NASA’s Kepler ...

According to scientists, a space object must tick four boxes before it can be classified as a dwarf planet. It must orbit the Sun ... of Hygiea compared to Ceres, the second smallest dwarf ...

That's because EBLM J0555-57Ab, the smallest star ever discovered ... 57Ab's small size in comparison to its sun-like companions led researchers to conclude initially that the planet-sized ...

Astronomers have found the smallest planet ever detected in the habitable zone around a star like the sun. The new planet was found with the Kepler telescope, which searches for signs that a star ...

A mini-world the size of the Moon is the smallest planet yet discovered beyond our Solar System (exoplanet). The hot, barren planet orbits a Sun-like star called Kepler-37 and is thought to be a ...

Astronomers have identified the smallest star ever discovered in the Universe and said that it could help in the search for Earth-like planets that ... size of that of the Sun.

making it the smallest Earth-analog planet ever found in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. Previous research on ‘super-Earth’-sized planets like 452-b suggests this one has a good chance ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the smallest brown dwarfs ever seen with the potential to ...

The KOI-961 planetary system hosts the three smallest planets known to orbit a star beyond our sun (called KOI-961. ... rocky" alien planet ever found. It is about 560 light-years from Earth.

[Gallery: Smallest Alien Planets Ever Seen] The two Earth-size planets are among five alien worlds orbiting a star called Kepler-20 that is of the same class (G-type) as our sun, and is slightly ...

NASA bragged Tuesday that its Kepler Space Telescope had discovered the two smallest planets ever found orbiting a ... two small planets so close to their sun that they orbited every 5.76 and ...