Barnard’s Star is notorious among astronomers for a history of false planet detections but it appears the latest discovery – ...

Prior to 2040, the last planetary quintuplet occurred in the year 1186, and according to Uptain, records show that the close ...

Dark matter is a confounding concept that teeters on the leading edges of cosmology and physics. We don't know what it is or ...

IT'S been nearly 40 years since the first planet outside of our Solar System was discovered ... HD 189733 b sits closer to its own version of the sun, earning it the common astro-nickname of ...

When you buy through links on our articles ... that of the sun. At 5.97 light-years from Earth, it is the fourth-closest star ...

Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time ... “It’s like putting your thumb in front of the sun when you look at the sky,” Balmer said.

We often focus on space observatories that peer beyond Earth. But the vast majority of satellites stare right back at us.

When you buy through links on our articles ... shifts in the movement of Barnard's Star in order to "tease apart the number and masses of the planets that must be circling the star to have ...

The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...

"It's a really exciting find—Barnard's Star is our cosmic ... of the four planets circling around Barnard's Star. The planets are so close to the star that they zip around their sun in a matter ...

Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what's called an inferior conjunction. But don't plan on seeing ...