An LSU-led team would like to use a high-flying Antarctic balloon-borne infrared telescope to detect the chemical makeup of ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new giant "planet," plus a new brown dwarf.

Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, holds fascinating clues about the origins of organic molecules in ou.

Did they originate locally in the asteroid belt? Or did they arrive later? Surface of dwarf planet Ceres. The sites of organic material are shown as or in red boxes. The vast majority of sites are ...

Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy material, the ingredients of planets," according to NASA's Goddard Space ...

A mysterious radio signal from a distant planet has sparked excitement among astronomers, hinting at the tantalizing ...

And red dwarf stars like Wolf 359 are known to produce a lot of radiation — often in the form of flares and other lash-outs. Because of the small size of such stars, planets around them would ...

Data from the Gaia spacecraft shows that even unassuming stars can host monumental companions like massive planets.