With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered "middle-aged," and the pictures of what it might ...

Interstellar material has been discovered in our solar system, but researchers continue to hunt for where it came from and ...

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 ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...

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

Another finding was how dramatically the planets varied in brightness over just three years. The team discovered that PDS 70 ...

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 ...