Are we alone in the universe? While no one can say for sure, space scientists know where to start looking—exoplanets. An ...

The confirmed discovery of exoplanets revolutionized our understanding of the universe. Among the thousands of confirmed ...

They say music is the universal language of humankind, but some stars in our galaxy exhibit their own rhythm, offering fresh ...

Named HD 20794 D, the newly discovered exoplanet orbits a star similar to the Sun ... it lies just 19.7 light-years away from Earth, raising the "tantalising possibility" of being able to ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away. The planet, known as HD 20794d, gets farther out from its star than Mars is ...

Scientists have discovered a 'super-Earth' exoplanet, HD 20794 d, located just 20 light-years away, which could potentially host life. It resides in the habitable zone of its star and might have ...

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

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

Just a sugar cube of neutron star matter would weigh about one hundred million tons on Earth. A neutron star's almost incomprehensible density causes protons and electrons to combine into neutrons ...

Only the three stars that make up the Alpha Centauri system lie closer to us. The planets newly discovered around Barnard’s Star are much too faint to be seen directly, so how were they found? The ...

the nearest single star system to Earth. The four planets are classified as sub-Earths because each one is about 19% to 34% the mass of Earth, according to new research. “It’s a really ...

Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it is too faint to be seen with the naked eye. Now, four small planets have ...