"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

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

A new model that incorporates data gathered by the JWST could help scientists understand the composition and mass of objects ...

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

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

How does a planet’s size influence its orbit around its parent star? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a team of ...

Scientists have discovered two diamond-like planets, PSR J1719-1438b and 55 Cancri e, challenging our understanding of ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-size planet that is showered with so much radiation, its atmosphere eroded away long ago ...

Asteroids are rocky objects that orbit the Sun, just like planets do. There are millions of asteroids of very different shapes and sizes. Some are almost spheres, like planets, but most are ...

In 1992 astronomers reported the first planet-size masses around a dead star, the pulsar PSR1257+12, which sits 2,000 light-years away. Three years later came news of the first known exoplanet ...

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.