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

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Fortunately, planets around the red dwarf stars present another option ... a lack of significant sulfur dioxide could make it a promising candidate for further observation to search for water ...

Barnard’s Star, discovered by American astronomer E.E. Barnard in 1916, is a low-mass red dwarf, one of the ... independent confirmation of the planet b and candidates c and d, and together ...