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

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

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

Carnegie's Luke Bouma presented exciting new research at the American Astronomical Society meeting revealing how large clumps ...

NASA’s IXPE captures the first X-ray polarization data from a white dwarf system, detailing observations of EX Hydrae and ...

Thanks to Dwarf, Impulse Gamer were given an exclusive opportunity to test out the world’s smallest smart telescope, the ...

Through Carnegie Mellon University’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program, junior physics major Joao Passos is studying brown dwarfs — objects bigger than planets but smaller than stars — ...

Scientists reveal that interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS could be delivering organic building blocks to Jupiter's moon Europa, ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive gas planet in a place it should never exist, orbiting one of the smallest stars in the ...

Pluto's icy mountains have caught the fancy of star gazers and cosmos geeks. But a question soon arose: "Is this made by AI?" ...

Our Solar System has eight planets, a few dwarf planets and more than 200 moons. But wait. Are you seeing double? Or did ...