According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

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 ...

Barnard’s Star is located just 6 light-years away from us. It is the closest single star to the Sun and the fourth closest star overall, after the three stars in the Alpha Centauri system. Just a few ...

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 ...

all belonging to the HR 8799 system, located 130 light-years from Earth. The detection of CO 2 offers clues as to how distant planets form, with the observations providing strong evidence that ...

Astronomers have long suspected that there was at least one exoplanet orbiting Barnard's Star — a red dwarf with a mass around one-sixth that of the sun ... planets have also been detected around the ...

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

The co-authors are all from Chinese research institutions ... suggesting that DM can find its way into the interior of planets, a phenomenon called dark matter planetary capture.

At a famous 1950 lunch among physicists, Enrico Fermi wondered, "Where are all the aliens?" How far have we come toward ...

(Five potential planets have also been detected around the stars of Alpha Centauri, though not all of them have been ... the movement of Barnard's Star in order to "tease apart the number and ...