Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...
Astronomers have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to find strong evidence for a planet orbiting a star in the triple system closest to our own sun. At just 4 light-years away from Earth, the ...
An artist’s rendering of Barnard’s Star, as seen from one of the newly discovered exoplanets orbiting it International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / P. Marenfeld under CC BY 4.0 For ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This artist’s concept shows what the gas giant orbiting ...
The host star, TOI-6894, is a red dwarf with only 20% the mass of the Sun, typical of the most common stars in our galaxy. Until now, such low-mass stars were not thought capable of forming or ...