More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

A new study is challenging the science of the formation of sub-Neptunian planets, which are the most common in the Milkey Way ...

Astronomers have identified an ultra-light exoplanet orbiting the star TOI-1453, located 250 light-years from Earth. While ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor and thick clouds on LTT 9779 b, an ultra-hot Neptune locked in a ...

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

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

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

For decades, astronomers have classified exoplanets into neat categories: rocky Earth-like planets, gas giants like Jupiter, ...

These rather small planets are a stone's throw from Earth in galactic terms, but were too small for previous instruments to ...

Four small, newly discovered worlds are less than six light-years away from Earth, and their discovery reinforces a ...

The four exoplanets orbit Barnard’s Star so closely that their years last only a few Earth days. They are probably rocky and, ...

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