A decades-old cosmic mystery may finally be solved. Scientists now suspect that the strange X-ray glow from a distant white ...
New research suggests that life could have the time and energy to arise on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking ...
A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...
Last year, astronomers announced that a planet orbits Barnard’s star. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of three more.
Scientists already know that a planet must be in the “Goldilocks zone”—not too hot and not too cold—to have liquid water, a ...
Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...
Four small, newly discovered worlds are less than six light-years away from Earth, and their discovery reinforces a ...
Florida Tech's Caldon Whyte is two years into a lengthy universe exploration to earn his Ph.D. in space sciences. After ...
A distant exoplanet discovered, named Enaiposha, is unlike anything found in our own solar system, similar to a "super-Venus" ...
Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...
An international team of astronomers reports the detection of two new brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars using NASA's ...