Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet ...
Published in the peer-reviewed The Astrophysical Journal, the research focuses on tidally locked planets, worlds that always ...
The sheer scale of Carrazco-Gaxiola’s survey, titled “An All-Sky Spectroscopic Reconnaissance of More Than 2,100 K Dwarfs ...
From September 2024 to May 2025, a Sun-like star designated J0705+0612 became 40 times dimmer. Researchers describe the ...
NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...
In astronomy, an occultation is when a celestial body or object — like the moon or a planet — passes in front of a distant ...
"Until now, it was unknown what type of star would remain after the merger." ...
It may be one of the most iconic sights in the night sky, but astronomers have never seen the Helix Nebula like this before.
In a statement Thursday, astrophysicist Amri Wandel of Hebrew University in Jerusalem said his research challenges the traditional concept of the "habitable zone," the narrow orbital range around a ...
Astronomers have found a massive cloud of metallic winds orbiting a mystery object in space. The cloud was found when ...