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 have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

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

This image features a deep field view of the Cassiopeia constellation immersed in the glow of ionized hydrogen gas, where 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 Radcliffe Wave is a massive, undulating structure filled with dense clouds of gas and dust, stretching across several ...

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

As civilizations become more and more advanced, their power needs also increase. It's likely that an advanced civilization ...

In 2015, astrophysicists discovered a system consisting of two compact stars orbiting each other: a pulsar (i.e., a highly ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.