Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but asteroids can pass by the Earth undetected.

PORT CHARLOTTE — The Rays are not giving up on their Eloy Jimenez experiment. They’re just not willing to risk it in the big leagues. The team informed Jimenez that he was not going to make ...

The former White Sox slugger is likely battling with Curtis Mead for the final spot on the Rays roster as a DH/OF/1B type. PORT CHARLOTTE — Considering his cartoonish batting average this spring ...

Spring is almost here — officially, at least. The vernal equinox arrives on Thursday, marking the start of the spring season for the Northern Hemisphere and the fall in the Southern Hemisphere. On the ...

A combination of the world's most powerful telescopes detected the planets. Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar system for the first time, scientists announced Monday. The gas giants are ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has directly imaged four planets orbiting the host star HR 8799 about 130 light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus.

Barnard’s Star has long been a focus of interest for people who study worlds beyond our solar system. It sits about six light-years from Earth and is known for its quick motion across our sky. For ...

The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's Star's habitable zone. Scientists have confirmed the existence of ...

Coel Hellier has received research council grants for the discovery of exoplanets. Barnard’s Star is a small, dim star, of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it ...

For a century, astronomers have been studying Barnard’s Star in the hope of finding planets around it. First discovered by E. E. Barnard at Yerkes Observatory in 1916, it is the nearest single star ...