Scientists have discovered four new Earth-like rocky planets orbiting Barnard's Star, just six light-years away. Using ...

Carbon dioxide detected in the atmosphere of exoplanets. The post Carbon Dioxide in Distant Exoplanets Discovered By ...

So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

Two planets outside the solar system have been identified orbiting a star located nearly 250 light-years away from Earth in ...

More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

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 ...

A new study challenges traditional models of how planets form. A new analysis of existing data suggests that exoplanets with masses comparable to Jupiter may have formed significantly earlier than ...

Scientists have just discovered four small, rocky exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, the nearest single star to our solar system after the Alpha Centauri system, NASA announced. Located only six ...

Four small, newly discovered worlds are less than six light-years away from Earth, and their discovery reinforces a ...

Are we alone in the universe? While no one can say for sure, space scientists know where to start looking—exoplanets. An ...

These two exoplanets, a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune, are common in the galaxy, yet are absent from our system. This discovery paves the way for future atmospheric studies to better understand ...