NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

"Until now, it was unknown what type of star would remain after the merger." ...

In astronomy, an occultation is when a celestial body or object — like the moon or a planet — passes in front of a distant ...

New Scientist. In each episode, hosts Leah Crane and Chelsea Whyte explore what would happen if they were given cosmic powers to rearrange the universe. They speak with astronomers, cosmologists and ...

Sweeping winds of vaporized metals have been found in a massive cloud that dimmed the light of a star for nearly nine months.