Nearby red dwarfs are turning into rich laboratories for studying small rocky worlds. One such star now stands out as a system with four or more planets, including at least one in the habitable zone ...
New research using Nasa’s powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere. The planet is within the “habitable zone”, the region around a star where ...
An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how planets form. Across our galaxy, astronomers routinely observe a ...