LTT 1445 Ac is roughly the size of Earth and about 22 light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. The planet orbits the ...

The sun is midway through its life of fusion. It's about 5 billion years old, and though its life is far from over, it will ...

Most of the exoplanets we've discovered orbit red dwarf stars. This isn't because red dwarfs are somehow special, simply that ...

"Our observations indicate the presence of powerful iron winds, probably fuelled by a hot spot in the atmosphere." ...

The possibility that there is liquid water on an exoplanet’s surface usually flags it as “potentially habitable,” but the reality is that too much water might prevent life from taking hold.

A star’s surface temperature can be used to determine the star’s luminosity and chemical composition. At best, a star’s exact ...

Astronomers have discovered that the exoplanet WASP-76b, located 634 light-years away in the Pisces constellation, ...

Astronomers have discovered a new feature in the distribution of planets beyond the solar system, and this finding could help us understand the dynamics that determine the formation of exoplanets ...

Gougeon/Université de Montréal “If you looked at the exoplanet community three to five years ago, everybody was thinking that [water] can only be present on the surface of planets,” Caroline ...

Astronomers developed a technique that uses a star's spectrum to chart variations in its temperature to the nearest tenth of ...

Dave Eggers is the author of “The Circle,” “What Is the What” and, most recently, “The Eyes and the Impossible,” winner of ...

Located around 634 light-years away from Earth in the Pisces constellation, the strange and hostile extrasolar planet or "exoplanet" has ... to pummel the planet's surface. These intimidating ...