An international team of astronomers has recently confirmed the discovery of a super-Neptune exoplanet orbiting a star that ...

Although exoplanet science is on firm ground now ... When Charbonneau plotted the light curves for the first of those nights, he says, “lo and behold, there was this little 1% deviation that ...

A rocky exoplanet located 4,000 light years away provides a possible preview of the Sun and Earth's fate 8 billion of years ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new super-Neptune exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star. The ...

Just 6 light-years away, it outpaces all other stars ... Star even more shine with the announcement of a long-sought-after exoplanet that scientists are calling Barnard b. Less than half the ...

The imaging was a "race against time" with the extrasolar planet, or "exoplanet," about to disappear behind the blinding light of its parent star, perhaps for as long as a decade. The planet AF ...

a "hot Jupiter" exoplanet that orbits blisteringly close to its star roughly 330 light-years from Earth. The updated parameters are so clear they should enable predictions of when the planet will ...

ESO / M. Kornmesser Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet that orbits a red dwarf star “just” six light-years away from Earth. Barnard’s star is the closest solo star and the second ...

Not only is this planet very close, it's one of the smallest we've ever spotted. Barnard's Star is about six light-years away, just a bit farther than Alpha Centauri but in a different direction.

Artist's illustration of the exoplanet WASP-107 b based on transit observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope as well as other space- and ground-based telescopes, led by Matthew Murphy of ...