John Wenz

Claims of worlds orbiting Barnard's star have been made before. But an advanced instrument could provide the breakthrough that finally confirms the star hosts a planetary system

Our planet's surface is littered with debris from the skies — and researchers have found that most come from only a few asteroid families.

Gliese 229 B, discovered in 1995, is a binary system of two brown dwarfs orbiting each other, in orbit around their parent red dwarf star.

A six-mile-thick crust of methane trapped in water ice could explain many of the saturnian moon's weird properties

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From 520 light-years away, astronomers have caught a glimpse of a nascent massive world still embedded within its star's protoplanetary disk.

New models using Voyager 2 data show that separate layers in the planets' mantles could be creating disordered magnetic fields.

Our sister planet is thought to have once been a habitable world, but a new study could change that narrative and alter the search for life in the galaxy.

Heavy hydrogen could be important in long-range detections of civilizations, says a pioneering astronomical study.

A new study reveals a possible solid mantle inside the volcanic body of Io, thanks to NASA's Juno spacecraft's close flybys of the moon.