Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...

Astronomers have discovered not one, but four tiny planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our cosmic neighbor. These planets, each about a fifth the mass of Earth, whip around their host star in just ...

Astronomers have been looking for exoplanets orbiting Barnard's Star, the nearest solitary star to Earth at just 5.96 ...

The four exoplanets orbit Barnard’s Star so closely that their years last only a few Earth days. They are probably rocky and, ...

A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in our galaxy. Using ...

The world's biggest iceberg appears to have run aground roughly 70 kilometers ... Researchers warned last month that a rise ...

"It's like a game of billiards around the solar system, flying by a couple of planets at just the right angle and timing to ...

Three members of the City Council in South Carolina's third-largest city accepted kickbacks and bribes to give out grant money and rezone land or lied about what they knew, federal prosecutors ...

Utopia Basin is, in fact, the largest ... parallel to the rocky cliff, and they rise toward that cliff at a shallow 15-degree slope — which is typical of beaches here on planet Earth.

It is the world's largest forest biome and composed mainly of pine, spruce trees 4. Valdivian Temperate Forest: Covers 248,100 sq km in Chile and Argentina. The forest is known for its unique ...

By Katrina Miller Astute skywatchers may have already seen the striking line of planets across the night sky in January. This week Mercury joins the queue. Now every other world in our solar ...

This rock, estimated to be just under four metres wide, is projected to fly by at roughly 186,000 miles from our planet ... Asteroids are small, rocky remnants from the formation of our solar ...