Long before astronomers discovered the first exoplanet in 1992, the idea of worlds orbiting distant stars captivated the ...

Researchers suggest that certain gases detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets could be key indicators in the search for ...

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

A precise mass can be determined for the companion when direct imaging is combined with radial velocity measurements. In some ...

"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off ...

Scientists have confirmed the existence of four small, rocky planets orbiting Barnard's Star — the second closest star system ...

The four exoplanets orbit Barnard’s Star so closely that their years last only a few Earth days. They are probably rocky and, ...

The atmospheres of exoplanets are our observable window on the physical and chemical properties of these objects. In the last ten years, the study of exoplanetary atmospheres has become one of the ...

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

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...

Four small, newly discovered worlds are less than six light-years away from Earth, and their discovery reinforces a ...