Aging stars can completely destroy their planets. When a star reaches the end of its life on the main sequence, it goes ...

At Armagh Observatory, Italian-born astronomer Dr. Stefano Bagnulo shares his lifelong passion for astronomy, his ...

Earth is still the only confirmed example of life, and two facts stand out: we exist very early in the universe’s stelliferous era, and we orbit a Sun-like star despite most stars being dim red dwarfs ...

TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for signs of an atmosphere—and potentially life-supporting conditions. Early James ...

This artist’s concept shows the volatile red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 and its four most closely orbiting planets, all of which have been observed by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). JWST has yet ...

An artist’s impression of an eruption from a large red star and its effect on a small planet near it: the small blue object with a faint, wispy trail, indicating its atmosphere being blown off. (Olena ...

Figure1: Infrared image showing the directly imaged brown dwarf companion J1446B (dot indicated by the arrow). The central red dwarf (J1446) is masked in white during image processing. The scale bar ...

A newly discovered dwarf planet could hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of our solar system’s outer reaches — but what could it mean for humanity's future in space? George Santos' prison ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Red dwarfs dominate the neighborhood and often host rocky worlds in temperate orbits. Yet their environments may hinder complex ...

For all the talk about life across the cosmos, Earth remains the only confirmed example. That single data point makes your place in the universe feel both ordinary and strange. Two facts sharpen the ...

More than 50 times further from the Sun than Earth, the tiny dwarf planet Makemake is one of the last places you'd expect to find an intact gaseous atmosphere. Not only is it incredibly cold, being ...