The next year of science on the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced amid mounting budgetary uncertainty that could ...
Astronomers have identified the source of strange radio flashes: a binary system containing a white dwarf, the remnant of a ...
A puzzling new type of radio signal – lasting seconds to minutes – has been linked to a binary star system featuring a white ...
Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...
A total of four small, rocky exoplanets were found circling Barnard’s Star, a red dwarf with a mass about one-sixth […] ...
Thermal emission measurements from the exoplanet Trappist-1 b suggest two plausible yet contradictory scenarios ...
The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...
“Each discovery is telling us something new about the extreme astrophysical objects ... that is closely orbiting a small, cool red dwarf star. Red dwarfs are the most common type of star in the cosmos ...
Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...
Astronomers used ALMA to observe Proxima Centauri and found frequent, intense flares that could destroy atmospheres of nearby ...
Scientists have just discovered four small, rocky exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, the nearest single star to our solar system after the Alpha Centauri system, NASA announced. Located only six ...
The two stars, a red dwarf and a white dwarf ... and each discovery teaches us something new." More information: I. de Ruiter ...