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

It's estimated there may be trillions of rogue planets wandering through the Milky Way, unbound to any star. Since detecting ...

Most planetary systems contain worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and the low-density planets around one ...

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

Astronomers have confirmed a Saturn-size world drifting alone in deep space roughly 10,000 light-years from Earth, a ...

Scientists weighed newborn planets for the first time, revealing puffy worlds that will shrink into super-Earths and ...

From volcanic landscapes to world-class observatories, a journey through the Canary Islands reveals a night sky unlike ...

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

Astronomers have finally pinned down both the mass and distance of a solitary “rogue” planet, a world that drifts through ...

One of the biggest recent surprises in astronomy is the discovery that most stars like the Sun harbor a planet ...

Situated around 17,000 light-years from Earth within the Milky Way Galaxy, the supernova remnant is close enough for NASA’s ...

NASA's SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into ...