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 ...

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

THE explosion of a distant star light years away could be visible to Earthbound stargazers this week. The star system, tucked ...

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.

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

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

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

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

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