The findings suggest that there are many more targets of opportunity for locating potentially habitable worlds across our ...

New molecules discovered on a faraway exoplanet have given scientists the “strongest evidence yet" that life may exist beyond ...

This discovery offers a glimpse into the dramatic and explosive fates awaiting some of the universe's most fascinating ...

In the new study, published April 4 in the journal Nature Astronomy, researchers revealed that WDJ181058.67+311940.94, a ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-size planet orbiting an ultracool red dwarf star similar in size to Jupiter. The red dwarf, located some 55 light-years away, is 100 times less bright than the ...

These explosions happen when a white dwarf, which is already an ultra-dense star remnant, takes in too much mass.

Gravity then causes them to collapse and blow off their outer layers in a "red giant" stage, eventually leaving behind a ...

NASA has discovered a new world, named Gliese 12 b. It is roughly the size of Earth, lies in the habitable zone, and orbits every 12.8 days.