Researchers are using basalt spectra to study exoplanets and search for water with the James Webb Space Telescope. By ...

These rather small planets are a stone's throw from Earth in galactic terms, but were too small for previous instruments to ...

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

For decades, astronomers have classified exoplanets into neat categories: rocky Earth-like planets, gas giants like Jupiter, ...

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 ...

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

Primordial supernovae got the ball rolling a quick hundred million years or so after the start of the universe.

These gases — composed of carbon, hydrogen, and a halogen, like chlorine — are mostly made by bacteria, algae, fungi, and ...

Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some ...

What can methyl halides, which are gases that consist of one carbon and three hydrogen atoms while being attached to a ...

Discover how iron's opacity in the sun challenges scientific models, and how researchers are working to resolve the ...