Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...
Astronomers have detected mysterious X-ray signals coming from a nearby white dwarf star for more than 40 years. We may now ...
About 650 light-years from here, in the constellation Aquarius, lies the planetary nebula Caldwell 63, commonly known as the ...
(Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated how far Pluto is from the sun ... adopted a resolution to reclassify Pluto as a dwarf planet. The reasoning was that it didn't satisfy ...
A white dwarf and a red dwarf star have been discovered closely orbiting each other emitting radio pulses every two hours. Their findings means we know it isn't just neutron stars that emit such ...
After tracking a puzzling X-ray signal from a dying star for decades, astronomers may have finally explained its source: The ...
Wolf 359, a red dwarf star just 7.8 light-years away, could host planets, but extreme X-ray and ultraviolet radiation make ...