WASHINGTON >> Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s star - one of our closest ...

Basant's team, which also includes a researcher from Heidelberg University, found the exoplanets using the 8-meter Gemini ...

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

Scientists have identified a promising new way to detect life on faraway planets, hinging on worlds that look nothing like ...

In the search for extraterrestrial life, water worlds have become the focus of research. Now there is a recommendation on ...

Astronomers have discovered four rocky exoplanets orbiting Barnard's star, the closest single star to our solar system. All four are too hot for life due to close orbits. These findings advance the ...

This orientation prevented the lander's solar panels from capturing enough sunlight, and Intuitive Machines declared Athena ...

Scientists discovered that methyl halides, a gas produced by microbes, could be a biosignature for life on distant planets.

Astronomers have discovered not one, but four tiny planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our cosmic neighbor. These planets, each about a fifth the mass of Earth, whip around their host star in just ...

We hear from the student winners of the prestigious Regeneron Science Talent Search, America's oldest science and math ...

Celestial discoveries: Paz won the $250,000 top prize for his research on detecting objects in the night sky. Using ...

Alien life could be hiding in gases, researchers have said. We could find extraterrestrial beings in gas on faraway planets ...