NASA has discovered a new world, named Gliese 12 b. It is roughly the size of Earth, lies in the habitable zone, and orbits every 12.8 days.

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s star — one of our closest stellar neighbors — ...

Astronomers have long predicted that two orbiting white dwarfs are the cause of most type 1a supernova explosions. While the ...

Webb first observed the region called Sagittarius C in 2023. Now researchers are now using those observations to study star formation in the wider area around the center of the Milky Way, known as the ...

Scientists have just discovered four small, rocky exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, the nearest single star to our solar system after the Alpha Centauri system, NASA announced. Located only six ...

Two planets outside the solar system have been identified orbiting a star located nearly 250 light-years away from Earth in ...

Indian scientists discover TOI-6038A b, a giant exoplanet 78 times Earth's mass. This sub-Saturn world orbits a binary star, ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

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These are rocky worlds that are more massive than Earth but smaller ... link" between observations of protoplanetary disks ...

Every year, scientists discover something new and amazing about the universe. Some of these you'll hear about no problem, but ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...