A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...
Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...
A new study by Rice University researchers Sho Shibata and Andre Izidoro presents a compelling new model for the formation of ...
Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...
The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s ...
Stargazers will be treated to a rare alignment of seven planets on 28 February when Mercury joins six other planets that are already visible in the night sky. Here's why it matters to scientists.
Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...
By Katrina Miller Astute skywatchers may have already seen the striking line of planets across the night ... Now every other world in our solar system will be visible among the stars at the ...
This journey through a dense region of space could have compressed the heliosphere, the protective bubble surrounding our solar system, and increased the influx of interstellar dust, potentially ...