Astronomers using a cutting-edge adaptive optics instrument, MagAO-X, have captured unprecedented images of young planets ...

Exciting new research suggests there are four miniature planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, each thought to be just 20 to 30% ...

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

In a new, groundbreaking discovery that has captivated the astronomy community, scientists have confirmed the presence of not ...

Astronomers have discovered four small planets orbiting Barnard's Star, the second-closest star system to Earth, using ...

Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it ...

Astronomers have found four small planets orbiting Barnard's Star, the second-closest star system to Earth. These planets are ...

The discovery points to what astronomers have thought for decades, that Saturn's rings were caused by a massive collision ...

Astronomers have long believed that the swirling disks of gas and dust that form planets around young stars last only about ...

Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...