Almost 10 years ago, a NASA spacecraft was able to take several photos of Pluto, known for decades as a planet before it was ...

Now, four small planets have been found orbiting the star ... as the churning of Earth's molten core produces Earth's magnetic field). The surfaces of red dwarf stars are rife with magnetic storms.

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

Last year, astronomers announced that a planet orbits Barnard’s star. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of three more.

Each of the newly found planets is a smaller sub-Earth, with no more than about a third of Earth's mass, and travels around ...

Scientists have been receiving X-ray signals from the Helix Nebula for decades, but now they believe it may hide a horrifying and grisly secret.

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

(Web Desk) - Astronomers have discovered four rocky planets, all significantly smaller than Earth, orbiting Barnard’s Star — ...

Pluto was once called the ninth planet, but in 2006, scientists changed its status to a dwarf planet. A planet must clear its orbit of other objects, but Pluto shares its space with many small icy ...

Scientists have just discovered four small, rocky exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, the nearest single star to our solar ...

Although Barnard’s Star is a small, dim red dwarf only a little bigger than Jupiter and thus much less bright than our Sun, the four planets all orbit so closely that they are within the inner b ...