Most stars in the cosmos are small, cool red dwarfs, yet the only intelligent life we know orbits a relatively rare yellow ...

Mars. From forming black holes to phantom dark energy, discover the cosmic mysteries astronomers uncovered last year.

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British space scientist Dame Maggie Aderin–Pocock is sure that life is present on some other planet in the universe. Citing the sheer number of cosmic bodies and galaxies, she says there has to be ...

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

Exoplanet TOI-561 b is the closest of four worlds orbiting a 10-billion-year-old G-type star roughly 280 light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford illustration NASA’s James Webb ...

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 ...

Of the seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, one planet in particular has attracted the attention of scientists. This planet orbits the star within the "Goldilocks zone"—a ...

Like a toddler right before naptime, TRAPPIST-1 is a small yet moody star. This little star, which sits in the constellation Aquarius about 40 light-years from Earth, spits out bursts of energy known ...

Introduction: The identification of habitable exoplanets is an important challenge in modern space science, requiring the combination of planetary and stellar parameters to assess conditions that ...