Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes ...
More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...
Life could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...
Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...
Our planet's closest and brightest neighbor will pass approximately between the Earth and sun this week, in what's called an ...
Florida Tech's Caldon Whyte is two years into a lengthy universe exploration to earn his Ph.D. in space sciences. After ...
Scientists already know that a planet must be in the “Goldilocks zone”—not too hot and not too cold—to have liquid water, a ...
"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...
Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard's Star, the second-nearest star system to Earth.
A new study has revealed the structure of extreme winds on WASP-121b, a gas giant located 1,300 light-years away. This ...
On March 23, however, the iconic rings are set to 'disappear'. This is due to the Earth’s orbit crossing the plane of the ...
What can a star’s behavior teach scientists about the formation and evolution of sub-Neptune exoplanets, which comprise one ...