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

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, ...

Life could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...

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

A decades-old cosmic mystery may finally be solved. Scientists now suspect that the strange X-ray glow from a distant white ...

The recent findings up the number of exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star from one to at least three, possibly four, as ...

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.

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 new model that incorporates data gathered by the JWST could help scientists understand the composition and mass of objects ...

Scientia Senior Lecturer Ben Montet and PhD candidate Brendan McKee analysed changes in the timing of a known planet's transit across its star, to infer the presence of a second exoplanet.