Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

White dwarfs are the burned-out cores of stars—ultra-dense, extremely violent, and fully capable of ripping planets apart.

Sweeping winds of vaporized metals have been found in a massive cloud that dimmed the light of a star for nearly nine months.

Explore four hypothetical worlds that could be more suitable for humans than Earth, based on current research and simulations ...

Astronomers are testing a quieter way of searching for moons beyond the solar system, using careful measurements of motion ...

American space agency NASA announced the launch of an improved software called ExoMiner++ that is used to detect exoplanet ...

From September 2024 to May 2025, a Sun-like star designated J0705+0612 became 40 times dimmer. Researchers describe the ...

That would make it thousands of times more massive than any moon orbiting a solar system plane  — so massive it could make ...

Astronomy is the study of stars, planets and the vast space beyond Earth. Every so often, scientists spot an event so unusual that it challenges what we think we know about the universe. Among ...

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

The sheer scale of Carrazco-Gaxiola’s survey, titled “An All-Sky Spectroscopic Reconnaissance of More Than 2,100 K Dwarfs Within 40 Parsecs Using High-Resolution Spectra,” is what sets it apart.