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

Compared to our 4.5-billion-year-old sun, ​​the 20-million-year-old V1298 Tau is a stellar baby, making it ideal for ...

On Saturday (Jan. 10), for example, we will see three satellites on one side of Jupiter (going outward from the planet: Ganymede, Io and Europa ), while the fourth ( Callisto) remains all by itself on ...

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

A potential new type of celestial object has all the makings of a normal small galaxy. It’s rich with the same hydrogen gas ...

It also pushed them to tighten their standards, especially when the conversation shifts from “interesting chemistry” to ...

Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...

Forty light-years away, seven Earth-sized planets orbit around a dim red dwarf star in one of the most tightly packed ...

For centuries since the Sun was declared the center of the solar system in the 16th century, society held the belief that any ...

One of the primary goals of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to detect atmospheres around exoplanets, to try to suss out whether or not they could potentially support life. But, in order to do ...

It should be noted that all of the dwarf planets have numbers attached to their names, as do all of the asteroids and Trans-Neptunian Objects. Thus, all dwarf planets technically have dual ...

For all the talk about life across the cosmos, Earth remains the only confirmed example. That single data point makes your place in the universe feel both ordinary and strange. Two facts sharpen the ...