What planet is most like Earth? Reseachers have identified several exoplanets similar to our planet, but none that are an ...

One of the main questions in exoplanet science concerns M dwarfs (red dwarfs) and the habitability of exoplanets that orbit ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist's impression of the red dwarf star TOI-6894 (foreground) and its giant planet orbiting ...

This artist’s impression shows a sunset seen from the super-Earth Gliese 667 Cc. Astronomers have estimated that there are tens of billions of such rocky worlds orbiting faint red dwarf stars in the ...

How did this red dwarf star 240 light-years away end up with a gas giant planet? Credit: University of Warwick / Mark Garlick illustration Astronomers have discovered a world outside the solar system ...

An artist imagines LTT 1445 Ac, an exoplanet about 22 light-years from Earth in a triple red dwarf star system. Astronomers have added two more exoplanets to a growing study aimed at finding out ...

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

Five exoplanets orbit the red dwarf star L 98-59, about 35 light-years away. In the foreground is a newly discovered super Earth, known as L 98-59 f. Credit: Benoit Gougeon / Université de Montréal ...

Astronomers have identified four exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, a red dwarf star just 6 light-years away from Earth. No, really, this time it’s for real! We have to emphasize this because ...

With sapphire waterfalls, lava rain and orbits around dead stars, these distant worlds push the limits of what’s possible.

These days, researchers commonly discover exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. But sometimes there’s a special discovery, like an exoplanet right in our backyard — and that’s the case with ...