What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a recently submitted study hopes to address as an international ...

What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

A recent study in Icarus suggests a wandering star could disrupt our solar system. Simulations reveal that a star passing ...

The nearby star Gliese 229 harbours a ‘brown dwarf’ companion: an object less massive than a star but more massive than a planet. High-resolution observations reveal that it is two objects ...

Gliese 229 B, discovered in 1995, has long stumped scientists. Now, we know why — it is a binary system of two brown dwarfs orbiting each other, in orbit around their parent red dwarf star.

NASA announced the discovery of a planet 40 light years from Earth that orbits every 12.8 days and is possibly even habitable. Gliese 12 b is a "super Earth exoplanet" that is nearly the same size ...

Studying Gliese 12 b could help us understand why this is the case. "Gliese 12 b could teach us a lot about how our own solar system has developed as well," Palethorpe added.

“Since Gliese 12 b gets in between the amount of light as Earth and Venus get from the Sun, it will be valuable for bridging the gap between these two planets in our solar system.” ...