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

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) telescope will be actively looking for traces of life on Earth-like planets in other ...

Astronomers have identified an ultra-light exoplanet orbiting the star TOI-1453, located 250 light-years from Earth. While ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor and thick clouds on LTT 9779 b, an ultra-hot Neptune locked in a ...

More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

Astronomers discover a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune 250 light years away from our solar system. These planets offer a ...

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

The project in the Atacama Desert could increase light pollution by up to 50%, making it much harder to observe the cosmos ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has achieved a groundbreaking feat by directly observing carbon dioxide (CO2) in the ...

These rather small planets are a stone's throw from Earth in galactic terms, but were too small for previous instruments to ...

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