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

Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a family of four.

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

Each of the planets, labeled b, c, d, and e, has a mass between 20% and 30% of Earth's, making them among the smallest yet ...

Using the radial velocity method, an international team of astronomers has discovered a new extrasolar planet orbiting a ...

It was once thought that when an aging star engulfed a planet it would be a dramatic event. Now, the Webb telescope has ...

Barnard’s Star, discovered by American astronomer E.E. Barnard in 1916, is a low-mass red dwarf ... each of the four planets are inside the distance of Mercury’s orbit,” Basant said.

Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear ...