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

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

Researchers suggest that certain gases detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets could be key indicators in the search for ...

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

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

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

The project in the Atacama Desert could increase light pollution by up to 50%, making it much harder to observe the cosmos ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...