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 ...

Data from the Kepler project has confirmed a new world that fulfills the telescope's goal of locating Earth-sized planets ...

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." ...

The Helix Nebula is one of the most well-known and commonly photographed planetary nebulae because it resembles the “ Eye of ...

A rare discovery beyond Neptune is forcing scientists to rethink early solar system dynamics and the forces that shaped ...

It may be one of the most iconic sights in the night sky, but astronomers have never seen the Helix Nebula like this before.