How many Earth-like exoplanets orbit M dwarf stars (Red dwarf stars), which are smaller and cooler than our Sun? This is what ...

Because Earth moves in an elliptical orbit around the sun, being further away means it travels slower along its orbit. This ...

In the frozen outskirts of the solar system, a reddish dwarf planet orbits in silence. Known as Sedna, it is so distant that one trip around the Sun takes more than 11,000 years. For much of that time ...

Since it launched in December 2021, Webb has been orbiting more than a million miles ... This five-layer sun shield blocks heat from the Sun, Earth and even the Moon, helping Webb stay incredibly cold ...

"More crucially, this planet resides within the habitable zone of its host star, the region around a star where the temperature is suitable for liquid water to exist. It orbits around its host star ...

Something incredibly strange is happening in our cosmic neighborhood: a mysterious gravitational disturbance is hurtling Jupiter toward the Sun. If it sounds like science fiction, that’s because ...

The satellites the world relies on for navigation, communication and more get their bearings from distant black holes – but ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...

In addition to providing a trove of information about the early universe, the James Webb Space Telescope since its 2021 ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

In this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute who explains why the Red Planet may hold answers about ...

According to the latest studies led by Heidelberg University astronomers, low-mass stars quite often host Earth-like planets. Data collected as part of the CARMENES project were the basis of this ...