Claims of worlds orbiting Barnard’s star have been made before. But an advanced instrument could provide the breakthrough ...

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

This artist’s impression shows Barnard b, a sub-Earth-mass planet that was discovered orbiting Barnard’s star. Its signal was detected with the ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large ...

Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting Barnard's star, the closest single star to our sun. On this newly ...

Over the last couple of years, planetary scientists have been increasingly calling for a mission to a largely unexplored region of the solar system: Uranus and its moons. Planetary scientists know ...

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

The discovery follows hints of a possible planetary signal orbiting the star in 2018. That hypothesized exoplanet was thought to be around three times the mass of Earth, orbiting at a distance of ...

Venus shines bright after sunset, the giant planets rise before midnight, and Mars shines before dawn. Plus, catch Comet ...

Oct. 1, 2024 — Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting Barnard's star, the closest single star to our Sun. On this newly discovered exoplanet, which has at least half the mass of Venus ...

Oct. 3, 2024 — Deposits of ice in lunar dust and rock (regolith) are more extensive than previously thought, according to a new analysis of data from NASA's LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ...