The search for habitable planets has taken a leap forward with new space telescopes probing exoplanet atmospheres for life.
Life could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...
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, ...
An international team of astronomers reports the detection of two new brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars using NASA's ...
Related: 'Hycean' exoplanets may not be able to support life after all Hycean planets are expected to orbit red dwarf stars, and the best candidate for a hycean world is the planet K2-18b.
A new model that incorporates data gathered by the JWST could help scientists understand the composition and mass of objects ...
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 ...
A decades-old cosmic mystery may finally be solved. Scientists now suspect that the strange X-ray glow from a distant white ...