Astronomers have identified the source of strange radio flashes: a binary system containing a white dwarf, the remnant of a ...

"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." ...

So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

Jean Schneider of the Paris Observatory predicts that T Coronae Borealis will explode between 2025 and 2027. Potential dates ...

The imminent explosion of T Coronae Borealis is expected to create a temporary 'new star' in the night sky this week ...

A total of four small, rocky exoplanets were found circling Barnard’s Star, a red dwarf with a mass about one-sixth […] ...

Thermal emission measurements from the exoplanet Trappist-1 b suggest two plausible yet contradictory scenarios ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

The search for habitable planets has taken a leap forward with new space telescopes probing exoplanet atmospheres for life.

Last year, astronomers announced that a planet orbits Barnard’s star. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of three more.