"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...
Astronomers have identified an ultra-light exoplanet orbiting the star TOI-1453, located 250 light-years from Earth. While ...
Pairs of planetary-mass objects, floating freely in space, intrigue scientists with their nature and origin. With masses ...
Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...
More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...
Last year, astronomers announced that a planet orbits Barnard’s star. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of three more.
Barnard’s Star has fascinated astronomers for decades. At just six light-years away, it is the second-closest single star to ...
Why was Pluto reclassified as a dwarf planet? One might think that it’s purely a matter of size. Mercury, the smallest of the ...
Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard's Star, the second-nearest star system to Earth.
The mass extinction that killed 80% of life on Earth 250 million years ago may not have been quite so disastrous for plants, ...
WASHINGTON >> Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s star - one of our closest ...