There’s a power shift on the horizon, and Pluto is here to show you where your potential for deep transformation lies ...

The most promising candidates in this search are rocky planets, as opposed to gaseous ones, that orbit low-mass stars known as M-dwarfs. These stars are the most common type in the universe. One ...

“One of the most intriguing questions right now in exoplanet astronomy is: Can rocky planets orbiting M-dwarf stars maintain atmospheres that could support life?” said Dr. Joshua Krissansen-Totton, ...

We know from The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien crafted endless stars in his legendarium, but are there other planets too?

Within GRAVITY’s combined observations, Xuan’s team discovered that Gliese 229 B was not a single object, but a pair of brown ...

In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...

Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around ...

Previous observations suggested that Ceres was less than 30% ice, and its craters were thought to imply that the dwarf planet ...

"This information will help us fill in the gaps in our knowledge of how brown dwarfs form and their relationship to stars and planets." Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have ...

Even if you’re not convinced that planets can affect us ... you might feel a little more connected to it all.

Interestingly, all of the planets and moons in this system are named after astronauts with Gagarin (Yuri Gagarin), Jemison (Mae Jemison), Olivas (John Daniel Olivas), and Chawla (Kalpana Chawla).