For the better part of a century, we believed there were nine planets in our solar system, with Pluto being the farthest from the sun. Since the discovery of more Pluto-sized dwarf planets, that ...

The surfaces of red dwarf stars are rife with magnetic storms ... They found one definite planet and reported tentative ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

A total of four small, rocky exoplanets were found circling Barnard’s Star, a red dwarf with a mass about one-sixth […] ...

"We might have finally found the cause of a mystery that's lasted over 40 years," said researcher Sandino Estrada-Dorado.

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Astronomers have long suspected that there was at least one exoplanet orbiting Barnard's Star — a red dwarf with a mass ...

The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...

Last year, astronomers announced that a planet orbits Barnard’s star. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of three more.

A decades-old cosmic mystery may finally be solved. Scientists now suspect that the strange X-ray glow from a distant white ...

The line-up of three evening planets in the southwest ... There are also five additional celestial bodies called dwarf planets, including Pluto, Ceres, Eris, Haumea and Makemake.