Though the characteristics of K-type stars make them favourable targets in the study of habitability, they haven't received ...

Decades in the making, NASA's X-ray timelapse shows a stellar explosion expanding into space at up to 2% the speed of light.

Artist's conception of the four planets around a young star observed in this research. The puffy planets may be losing their ...

Most planetary systems contain worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and the low-density planets around one ...

Situated around 17,000 light-years from Earth within the Milky Way Galaxy, the supernova remnant is close enough for NASA’s ...

It's estimated there may be trillions of rogue planets wandering through the Milky Way, unbound to any star. Since detecting ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope detected metallic iron dust, silicon carbide and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the nearby dwarf galaxy Sextans A, revealing early dust formation processes.

A potential new type of celestial object has all the makings of a normal small galaxy. It’s rich with the same hydrogen gas ...

One of the biggest recent surprises in astronomy is the discovery that most stars like the Sun harbor a planet between the ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a rogue planet, an isolated world drifting through the Milky Way without a host ...

A potential new type of celestial object has all the makings of a normal small galaxy. It’s rich with the same hydrogen gas ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted two rare kinds of dust in the dwarf galaxy Sextans A, one ...