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

A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...

Astronomers using the mighty James Webb Space Telescope have captured direct images of four planets in a star system 130 ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

This image features a deep field view of the Cassiopeia constellation immersed in the glow of ionized hydrogen gas, where the ...

Many protoplanetary disks in which new planets are formed are much smaller than thought. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) scientists of the Leiden Observatory (the ...

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our ...