Since its arrival on the Martian surface five years ago, NASA’s Perseverance rover has been busy scouring the Red Planet for ...

Astronomers have discovered two exoplanets around TOI-1453, a star about 250 light years away. These two exoplanets, a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune, are common in the galaxy, yet are absent from our ...

Scientists are rethinking how to detect alien life by focusing on planets vastly different from Earth. Instead of searching ...

An arrowhead-shaped rock on Mars sporting features that may hint at ancient microbial activity on the Red Planet has left ...

Astronomers have detected four small planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, one of the closest stars to Earth, at just six ...

Considered a solitary star for its lack of stellar companions, Barnard's Star is notoriously lonely—signs of any exoplanets ...

Those orbiting Barnard’s star are among the smallest of the more than 5,800 exoplanets discovered since the 1990s as ...

Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is investigating the Flame Nebula, hunting for "failed stars" to better understand how brown ...

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

Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges ...