More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to Earth, a pair of telescopes has revealed multiple rocky worlds around it ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has done it again. Though it's notoriously difficult to snap direct images of distant ...
"Light pollution from projects like INNA doesn't just hinder research, it steals our shared view of the universe." ...
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 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 ...
Giant Exoplanets in HR 8799 System Likely Formed Like Jupiter and Saturn The first exoplanet was discovered in the 1990s, but ...
What can a star’s behavior teach scientists about the formation and evolution of sub-Neptune exoplanets, which comprise one ...
What can methyl halides, which are gases that consist of one carbon and three hydrogen atoms while being attached to a ...