Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

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

New findings from the ALMA telescope have revealed that planets are born in much smaller protoplanetary disks than ...

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 ...

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

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

Astronomers discover a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune 250 light years away from our solar system. These planets offer a ...

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

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

Learn what planet rains molten iron and which planet has two moons like Tatooine in Star Wars.

These rather small planets are a stone's throw from Earth in galactic terms, but were too small for previous instruments to ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...