Published in the peer-reviewed The Astrophysical Journal, the research focuses on tidally locked planets, worlds that always show the same face to their star.

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

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 ...

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

Astronomers have identified a rare sednoid called Ammonite, an icy object beyond Neptune that offers new insight into the ...

Optical proof of a tiny companion orbiting supergiant star Betelgeuse is hard to come by. Hubble just spotted new evidence.

First detected in 2004, the dwarf planetHaumeaquickly stood out due to its rapid rotation and elongated form. But the 2017 ...

The short answer is stars will come first. Stars are the components of galaxies. because they're so massive. of materials ...

Astronomers have observed a white dwarf – a highly compact Earth-sized stellar ember – that is creating a colorful shockwave ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

The question of life on other worlds has become a serious area of research, writes science reporter Ivan Semeniuk. Over the ...

Pluto sits far out in the Solar System, small and dim, moving at a pace that barely fits human timelines. It was found in ...