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

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

Finding alien life won’t be as dramatic as a flying saucer landing on the White House lawn – it’ll be NASA scientists holding ...

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

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

Researchers can see celestial snapshots with the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful ever launched, of the star ...

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

A new model that incorporates data gathered by the JWST could help scientists understand the composition and mass of objects ...

Giant Exoplanets in HR 8799 System Likely Formed Like Jupiter and Saturn The first exoplanet was discovered in the 1990s, but ...

Barnard’s Star has fascinated astronomers for decades. At just six light-years away, it is the second-closest single star to ...

Combination of Cosmic Processes Shapes the Size and Location of Sub-Neptunes Mar. 17, 2025 — A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets ...