A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new study.

Scientists have discovered four planets orbiting Barnard's Star, the closest solitary star to Earth, located 5.96 light-years ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

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

Webb’s latest discovery has opened a thrilling new chapter in exoplanet research by capturing the first-ever direct images of ...

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

Tiny grains collected from the asteroid Ryugu have given scientists a new window into the magnetic forces that shaped the ...

After many previous claims and false alarms, astronomers can finally confirm the existence of at least four planets less ...

Astrophysicists have once again enriched our knowledge of the cosmos with a new discovery: two small planets orbiting ...

How do rogue planetary-mass objects – celestial bodies that fall between planets and stars in size – come into existence? An ...

I have seen my share of action movies, monster movies, and, to my chagrin, horror movies, but seldom have I seen a movie that treated the human body so callously, ...