Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...

The shape of a planet's orbit is one of its fundamental properties, along with its size and distance from its host star.

Earth" planet has been discovered orbiting a star just 20 light-years away from Earth, offering exciting possibilities for ...

Astronomers have discovered four small planets orbiting Barnard's Star, the second-closest star system to Earth, using ...

With an orbit of 647 days, HD 20794 d is similar to Mars in our solar system. However, its orbit around the star is highly ...

All the excess carbon dioxide generated by people burning fossil fuels is shrinking the upper atmosphere, exacerbating the problem with space junk. New research, published in Nature Sustainability on ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, ...

UCLA astrophysicists have now measured the shape of the orbits of exoplanets -- from the size of Jupiter down to the size of Mars -- and shown that small planets have nearly circular orbits, while ...

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 ...

TYLER, Texas (KETK) — The seven planetary alignment or “planet parade” is expected to be the brightest just after sunset on ...