Astronomers have found signs that the small icy world Chiron, orbiting between Saturn and Uranus, may be forming a new ring ...
Makemake, discovered in 2005, orbits the Kuiper Belt nearly 6.8 billion kilometers from the Sun and is one of the brightest ...
A massive exoplanet discovered orbiting a nearby dwarf star is well positioned for next-generation telescopes to search for ...
What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...
Earth, GJ 251c, orbiting a red dwarf star less than 20 light-years away, presents an exciting prospect in the search for life beyond our solar system.
The newly discovered world is called GJ 251c and it is a super-Earth orbiting a red dwarf star less than 20 light-years away.
Earth, called Ross 508 b, orbiting a small red dwarf star just 37 light-years from Earth. The discovery, made using the ...