The quartet of planets — named b, c, d and e — are some of the smallest rocky worlds ever detected. NASA says each has a mass ...

Barnard’s Star is notorious among astronomers for a history of false planet detections but it appears the latest discovery – ...

Everyone's favorite dwarf planet, Pluto, was discovered just 95 years ago. Here's the story of how the once-ninth planet was ...

Thermal emission measurements from the exoplanet Trappist-1 b suggest two plausible yet contradictory scenarios ...

Gonggong is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. As of 2019, its distance from the Sun is 88 AU, and it is the sixth-farthest known Solar System object.

The difference matters because multiple stars complicate how planets might form, so an M dwarf star with just one companion star suggests a different environment for potential worlds. Astronomers ...

Entwined dwarf stars reveal their location thanks to repeated radio bursts We now know it isn't just neutron stars that emit such pulses Date: March 12, 2025 Source: University of Sydney Summary ...

There are currently six recognized dwarf planets: Pluto, Ceres, Eris, Makemake, Haumea, and 2015 RR 245 (which does not have an official “name” yet, as of 2022). If we were just talking about ...

Let’s take a closer look at this former planet at the edge of our Solar System. Since it received its new status of a “dwarf planet,” Pluto can console itself with finally being the largest ...

Astrophotography is hard but it doesn't need to be. I've been testing the Dwarf 3 for the past two months and, not only has it changed my perspective on astrophotography without a bulky telescope ...

It has a ring and a small moon called Weywot. Pluto is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, a region of our solar system past Neptune. NASA captured stunning image of Eris dwarf planet. It is a dwarf ...

(The absolute nearest star system to us, Proxima Centauri, has three stars circling each other, which changes the dynamics of planet formation and orbits). Barnard’s Star is a type called an M dwarf ...