Astronomers have confirmed a fifth planet orbiting the nearby red dwarf L9859, which lies in the star's habitable zone. The newly detected world, L9859f, is a super-Earth with a minimum mass of 2.8 ...

Smartphones require some pretty specific pieces of tech (and specific materials) in order to work. As it turns out, those ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured three brown dwarfs in an amazing view of star cluster IC 348, located about 1000 ...

Scientists are turning to simulations and experiments to understand how life-indicating molecules behave, so we might know ...

New research has revealed that mysterious ‘rogue planets’ could be assembling scaled-down planetary systems of their own.

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a rare, retrograde-orbiting planet in a tight binary star system. Most stars throughout the Universe are part of binary or multiple star systems. In these ...

New observations are the first direct evidence of planets influencing their stars rather than just passively orbiting them ...

The Sun is often viewed as a typical star,a common yellow dwarf quietly powering our Solar System. But is it truly ordinary, ...

Webb's Near-Infrared Camera view shows at least two or three distinct outflows of gas — jets stretching in different ...

Researchers studied the L 98-59 system and confirmed five rocky planets. One is in the habitable zone and may support liquid water.

This splash of paint on the canvas of space is the planetary nebula NGC 6072, the dying embers of a ruined star that has ...

"The formation of planetary systems is not exclusive to stars but might also work around lonely starless worlds." ...