Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

RCW 38 lies approximately 5,500 light-years away in the constellation Vela. Unlike many star clusters that appear as simple ...

A mysterious radio signal from a distant planet has sparked excitement among astronomers, hinting at the tantalizing possibility of extraterrestrial life.

red dwarfs can remain active for billions of years longer than Sun-like stars, with younger red dwarfs frequently subjecting their planets to powerful flares. “This study has changed the picture of ...

Prepare to get schooled If you have kids in school, or even if you don’t, you’ve probably realized that there’s a lot about ...

The WASP-132 system contains a Hot Jupiter (in the foreground), an inner super-Earth (here transiting in front of the orange host ... probably a brown dwarf (a celestial body whose mass is between ...

Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

Cosmic forensic experts are reconstructing the magnetic field around an infant star from the planet-forming disk of gas and dust around it. How do you dust a star for fingerprints? It's certainly ...

HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals unprecedented details of it.