Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery that could revolutionize our understanding of the giant red supergiant ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

"The discovery provides a unique cosmic laboratory for studying these mysterious objects." A rare quadruple star system that is the first of its kind to be discovered by astronomers could help better ...

Scientists have begun their study of the fourth planet from the TRAPPIST-1 star. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Joseph Olmsted illustration As scientists continue to study a distant star system ...

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 ...