A 2020 microlensing event was caused by a planetary system with an Earth-like planet and brown dwarf. The star type was uncertain. Using Keck observations, a UC Berkeley team has determined that ...

Astronomers spotted a potential Earth-size rocky world orbiting a white dwarf, suggesting a future in which our planet outlives its star. By Jonathan O’Callaghan In six billion years the sun ...

When you imagine planets outside of our solar system you might dream up ocean worlds, thick plains of ice, or boiling seas of molten rock. … ...

One year into a journey measuring millions of kilometres across space, NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew by our planet on October 15, capturing its first dazzling (and slightly haunting) images of the ...