The team found a planet 1.3 times the size of Jupiter, which orbits around a so-called M dwarf – a relatively small and cool star – once every 4,170 days.

Detail ： GJ 504 b is an exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star GJ 504. It is estimated to be three to six times more massive than Jupiter, making it the least massive planet ever directly imaged. This ...

The orange dwarf Gliese 710 is expected to come within 0.1663 light-years or 10,520 astronomical units in about 1.29 million years.

Learn about Bliss 436b, which has a comet-like tail, and WASP 12b, a planet so hot it’s almost uninhabitable. These exoplanets defy expectations and open up new possibilities for space ...

Energy Star-certified appliances include upright freezers, clothes washers and many other types of home equipment, which use between 10% and 50% less energy than uncertified items. AP Photo/Joshua ...

In response to hints of “biosignatures” found on a world called K2-18b, new research suggests there’s a lot of uncertainty surrounding the exoplanet. CNN’s Ashley Strickland reports on the ...

The dwarf planet candidate’s closest point to the sun is about 7 billion kilometers, roughly 45 times that of Earth’s distance. One trip around the sun takes more than 24,000 years.

As astronomers study an exoplanet called K2-18b, conflicting research reveals how difficult it is to find evidence of life beyond Earth.