The search for habitable planets has taken a leap forward with new space telescopes probing exoplanet atmospheres for life.

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

The four exoplanets orbit Barnard’s Star so closely that their years last only a few Earth days. They are probably rocky and, ...

By November 2023, it had identified a total of 6,977 candidates ... being roughly 1.5 times the diameter of our planet. It orbits a red dwarf star, which is somewhat smaller than our yellow ...

An international team of astronomers reports the detection of two new brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars using NASA's ...

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

Nobody was using the term Dwarf Planet until 2006 when the International Astronomical Union (IAU) had a vote to redefine what ...

The newfound alien world orbits a nearby M-dwarf star designated GJ 2126 ... available for astronomers to confirm or discover planet candidates. "We report the discovery of GJ 2126 b, a highly ...