For all the talk about life across the cosmos, Earth remains the only confirmed example. That single data point makes your place in the universe feel both ordinary and strange.

What can planets orbiting red dwarf stars teach scientists about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recently submitted study hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

A new study from David Kipping attempts to explain why we are located around a yellow star, and so early in the universe.

M dwarfs, or red dwarfs, are the most common type of star in our galaxy, accounting for more than half of all stars in the Milky Way. These small ...

The Copernican Principle, named in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus (who proposed the heliocentric model of the universe), states that Earth and humans do not occupy a special or privileged place in the ...

Five exoplanets orbit the red dwarf star L 98-59, about 35 light-years away. In the foreground is a newly discovered super Earth, known as L 98-59 f. Credit: Benoit Gougeon / Université de Montréal ...

By analyzing the data from the HASH database, astronomers have conducted a comprehensive study of nearly 1,500 planetary ...

When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected material from a Pluto-like body spiraling into a white dwarf star 260 light-years away from Earth. - NASA / JPL-Caltech / Tim Pyle illustration For the first ...

For all the talk about life across the cosmos, Earth remains the only confirmed example. That single data point makes your place in the universe feel both ordinary and strange. Two facts sharpen the ...