The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth located 41 light-years away. This planet, five ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

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

Scientists have discovered two diamond-like planets, PSR J1719-1438b and 55 Cancri e, challenging our understanding of ...

When young, aspiring astronauts dream about shooting off into space in a rocket ship, their minds rarely wander to worst case ...

Giant Exoplanets in HR 8799 System Likely Formed Like Jupiter and Saturn The first exoplanet was discovered in the 1990s, but ...

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

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.

The James Webb Space Telescope captures the first direct images of carbon dioxide in a distant planetary system, HR 8799, ...