Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes ...

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

A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some ...

A "daytime star party" was held March 15 at St. Mary's County Library's Lexington Park branch. The two-hour presentation was ...

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new study.

A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system ...

Researchers discovered a planet-forming disk that lasted 30 million years. This challenges previous estimates of 10 million ...