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

The scientific community has long grappled with the question of whether these stars can support planets capable of sustaining ...

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 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study 25 hot Jupiters. It has helped to answer "questions important to our understanding of exoplanet atmospheres," according to the Hubble team. Credit: ...

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

An international astronomy team has analysed data from a newly-discovered massive planet on an extreme orbit to understand ...

The asteroid belt that sits between Mars and Jupiter might be holding the building blocks of life, according to a new study.

Astronomers have constructed telescopes of every kind - massive observatories designed to pick up faint traces of light ...

While the astrobiologist author points out that it is highly unlikely that the earth is the only habitable planet in the ...