Two planets outside the solar system have been identified orbiting a star located nearly 250 light-years away from Earth in ...

Barnard’s Star is notorious among astronomers for a history of false planet detections but it appears the latest discovery – ...

WELCOME to Mars – where the air is too thin to breathe and the surface temperature is too cold for unsheltered life. Yet the ...

Each of the planets, labeled b, c, d, and e, has a mass between 20% and 30% of Earth's, making them among the smallest yet detected using the radial velocity method.

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

The world of Sailor Moon does not just relate to our own solar system, but the many unknown planets from the original story ...

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A spacecraft traveling at one-tenth of the speed of light could shave the trip down to a quick 40 years. Future engineers could use nuclear power to achieve that, says Scott Bailey, an engineer at ...

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The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...