How does a star affect the makeup of its planets? And what does this mean for the habitability of distant worlds? Carnegie's ...

A new survey maps nearby K-type stars and shows why these long-lived, stable stars are important targets in the search for ...

Scientists have used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarisation Explorer) to study a white dwarf star for the first time. By ...

Though the characteristics of K-type stars make them favourable targets in the study of habitability, they haven't received ...

Decades in the making, NASA's X-ray timelapse shows a stellar explosion expanding into space at up to 2% the speed of light.

Scientists have assembled a catalogue of more than 2,000 stars that could be supporting alien life. Researchers behind the ...

NASA’s IXPE has become the first observatory to measure a white dwarf star. It used its X-Ray polarization to reveal the ...

What makes the star remarkable is its location. Siwarha appears to orbit so close that it never leaves Betelgeuse’s ...

Scientists have identified a strange cosmic relic called Cloud-9 — a starless, gas-filled object dominated by dark matter.

Cloud-9 entered the picture in 2023, when astronomers using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in ...

We are going to be getting a lot of exciting new information about galaxies in 2026, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, who can't wait to see what it can tell us ...

Astronomers from Serbia and Russia have conducted deep optical observations of a cloud of neutral atomic hydrogen, designated FAST J0139+4328. Results of the observational campaign, published December ...