Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

A team of astronomers recently tapped into JWST’s capabilities to explore the smallest objects in the Flame Nebula.

Decades of constant X-ray emission from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf suggest debris from a Jupiter-sized planet steadily rains upon the star.

The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...

Euclid has opened a new window to the cosmos with its first deep sky data release, revealing millions of galaxies, ...

"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." ...

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s star – one of our closest stellar neighbors – though they concluded that all of them are too hot to harbor life, much ...

Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...

Barnard’s Star, discovered by American astronomer E.E. Barnard in 1916, is a low-mass red dwarf ... “When compared to our solar system, each of the four planets are inside the distance ...

Barnard’s Star, discovered by American astronomer E.E. Barnard in 1916, is a low-mass red dwarf ... “When compared to our solar system, each of the four planets are inside the distance ...

Barnard’s Star has long been a focus of interest for people who study worlds beyond our solar system. It sits about six light ... matters because multiple stars complicate how planets might form, so ...

It has been estimated this system ... around a red dwarf is that although these stars shine steadily for a long time, they are prone to super-sized versions of solar flares and planets orbiting ...