In a new, groundbreaking discovery that has captivated the astronomy community, scientists have confirmed the presence of not ...

The JWST has spotted the presence of carbon dioxide on HR 8799’s four known planets, part of a system astronomers use to ...

New connections discovered between the Sun's photosphere and CI chondrites meteorites, providing clues about the origin of materials.

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

Now, two separate research teams have found solid evidence that four tiny planets—each less than half the mass of Earth—circle this ... to detect planets there hinted at something, but never ...

The rate of stars going supernova near Earth appears to match two mass extinctions -- 372 million years ago and 445 million ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, ...

Beyond explaining these observations, the model also allows for predictive analysis of planetary formation and even hints at the potential for other Earth-like planets. Izidoro said although it would ...

Scientists, therefore, would like to know more about what kinds of planets they host. The trouble is that these faraway ... Most of the rocky planets we’ve found so far are much larger than Earth, and ...

Are there spurious instrumental effects that the teams haven’t accounted for? Hence it is reassuring when independent teams, using different telescopes, instruments and computer codes, arrive at the ...