BepiColombo is slowly uncovering more and more fun facts about Mercury as it continues its preliminary mission. One of the ...

NASA bragged Tuesday that its Kepler Space Telescope had discovered the two smallest planets ever found orbiting a distant star, but a UA astronomer and colleagues may have discovered even smaller ...

Late last July, a University astrophysicist helped discover the smallest planet ever detected outside the solar system — without even seeing it. Using a planet-finding technique called "gravitational ...

TOI-6894 is now the smallest star known to host a transiting giant planet, with a radius 40% smaller than that of any previous such host. Prof. Jamila Chouquar, who was an astronomer at ULiege at the ...