Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet ...

Jupiter-like planet 8 UMi b, named Halla, orbits its host red giant star Baekdu closely. The red giant's merger with a white ...

Published in the peer-reviewed The Astrophysical Journal, the research focuses on tidally locked planets, worlds that always ...

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From September 2024 to May 2025, a Sun-like star designated J0705+0612 became 40 times dimmer. Researchers describe the ...

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

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

Astronomers have found a massive cloud of metallic winds orbiting a mystery object in space. The cloud was found when ...

When the object now known as 1I/ʻOumuamua streaked through the inner Solar System in 2017, it instantly rewrote the playbook ...

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 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the clearest infrared observation of the Helix Nebula ever, displaying the death ...