Around a star just 20 light-years from the Solar System, astronomers have confirmed the existence of what might be a ...

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

Solving the "Lucky Light" Problem: Light from a star interferes with signals from an exoplanet's atmosphere, making water detection difficult. A phenomenon discovered in 2018, this effect limits ...

A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...

New research shows that star activity can distort exoplanet measurements, affecting size, temperature, and atmosphere ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...