Astronomers have identified Proxima Centauri b, a rocky planet just over four light-years away, as the closest potentially ...

Only 11.4 light-years away, two exoplanets have been detected around a neighboring star. One of them, Gl725Bc, is located in ...

Astronomers have spotted four smaller-than-Earth exoplanets orbiting the closest single-star system to us, called Barnard’s Star. According to the astronomers, these exoplanets — which are among the ...

(CNN) — After decades of searching, astronomers have uncovered some of the strongest evidence yet of exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, the nearest single star system to Earth. The four planets are ...

The planet is one of the best worlds for follow-up studies to determine whether it could be habitable or not.

It’s not easy to uncover exoplanets, largely lightless objects that either lurk in the dark void of space or are blown out by the light of a nearby star. But astronomers using the James Webb Space ...

These days, researchers commonly discover exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. But sometimes there’s a special discovery, like an exoplanet right in our backyard — and that’s the case with ...

Gemini North’s MAROON-X instrument finds evidence for four mini-Earth exoplanets around our famous cosmic neighbor Barnard’s Star MAROON-X hunts for exoplanets using the radial velocity technique, ...

Researchers may have discovered a gas giant orbiting the star Alpha Centauri A, and it appears to be in the star's habitable zone. Reading time 3 minutes Exoplanet hunters have had an eye on Alpha ...