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

Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes ...

Prior to 2040, the last planetary quintuplet occurred in the year 1186, and according to Uptain, records show that the close ...

Right now, a lot of planets are visible in the night sky. A great alignment, which occurs when all the solar system’s planets are visible at once, has just ended, but you can still spot most of ...

If you were to hop on a ship traveling at the speed of light and head out into the galaxy for 40 years, you might come across a cool, red star circled by seven worlds. Some of those seven Earth ...

A combination of the world's most powerful telescopes detected the planets. Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from ...

"That gives us a lot of assurance that these aren't phantoms in the data." These are among the smallest planets yet found with this observing technique. The scientists hope this will mark a new ...