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.

In a blow to anyone dreaming that complex life may exist elsewhere in the universe, a new study suggests we're unlikely to ...

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

Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.

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 ...

Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren't planets at all, but ...

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 ...

In theory, a planet may be able to orbit a binary star system in a figure of eight, but it may not be particularly stable, ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

Carnegie's Luke Bouma presented exciting new research at the American Astronomical Society meeting revealing how large clumps of cool plasma that are trapped in an M dwarf star's magnetosphere can be ...