A total of four small, rocky exoplanets were found circling Barnard’s Star, a red dwarf with a mass about one-sixth […] ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...

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

Astronomers used ALMA to observe Proxima Centauri and found frequent, intense flares that could destroy atmospheres of nearby ...

Caption This artist's conception shows a hypothetical habitable planet with two moons orbiting a red dwarf star. Astronomers have found that 6 percent of all red dwarf stars have an Earth-sized ...

a low-mass red dwarf, was discovered in 1916. Since then, astronomers have discovered that at least 70% of all stars in the ...

These rather small planets are a stone's throw from Earth in galactic terms, but were too small for previous instruments to ...

A new study is challenging the science of the formation of sub-Neptunian planets, which are the most common in the Milkey Way ...

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