Astronomers have made an exciting breakthrough by discovering four sub-Earth exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our closest ...

Star is a small, dim red dwarf star located in the constellation Ophiuchus. It’s distance was first measured by the ...

In research highlighted in a new paper, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, Scientia Senior Lecturer Ben Montet and PhD candidate Brendan McKee analysed changes in the timing of a known ...

A visible line of planets has for weeks been the talk of astronomers and hobbyist stargazers who have sought to catch a sight of our solar system's worlds. Online chatter and a frenzy of media ...

On Feb. 28, a stellar alignment of planets will illuminate the night sky for the last time in a decade Space Frontiers/Hulton Archive/Getty Calling all stargazers and astronomy enthusiasts ...

Scientists studied the history of our sun and its satellites with all the tools they had, and they used the knowledge they gained to shape our understanding of how planets form and evolve.

Instead, it's the opposite: Significant amounts of sulfur dioxide in a planet's atmosphere is a good sign that the world is uninhabitable and we can safely cross it off the list of candidates.

Hussain is talking about his love for outer space and his determination to find new planets. He has discovered eight strong candidates using the Transit Method, which detects dips in light around ...