Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

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

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

Last year, astronomers announced that a planet orbits Barnard’s star. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of three more.

Astronomers using the mighty James Webb Space Telescope have captured direct images of four planets in a star system 130 light years from Earth — an astonishingly eagle-eyed feat of cosmic ...

A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small, mysterious moon. While on a flyby of Mars, Hera was able to use three of its imaging instruments to capture images of ...

The conical capsule landed with the assistance of a parachute and was quickly recovered. The spacecraft carried a ...

without signs of a surrounding solar system. These new observations, and those forthcoming, will help researchers understand objects in the cosmos that could be rogue planets or small brown dwarfs.