A team of scientists has confirmed that the nearby star GJ 887 hosts at least four planets, one of which could be a habitable ...

Worlds upon worlds await us in the cosmos and we’re finding more all the time. Before 1992, we weren’t even completely certain planets existed outside of our solar system. Now, astronomers are finding ...

A new study shows that stars with low magnetic activity are likely to support exoplanetary systems, making the hunt for these ...

Kepler-62f (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-701.04) is a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the star Kepler-62, the outermost of five such planets ...

FREWSBURG — Recently, a new discovery has been made in the astronomy world in the form of a new exoplanet, Wolf 327b, which orbits the nearby red dwarf star, Wolf 327. The discovery has local ...

Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought. While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, ...

Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, modelling and observational communities, will help to interpret the astronomical ...