These rather small planets are a stone's throw from Earth in galactic terms, but were too small for previous instruments to ...

Last year, astronomers announced that a planet orbits Barnard’s star. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of three more.

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Four small, newly discovered worlds are less than six light-years away from Earth, and their discovery reinforces a ...

Young stars enveloped in a transformative cocoon of gas shine brightly in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.The ...

A white dwarf and a red dwarf star have been discovered closely orbiting each other emitting radio pulses every two hours.

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 ...

Florida Tech's Caldon Whyte is two years into a lengthy universe exploration to earn his Ph.D. in space sciences. After graduating with a Bachelor's degree in astrobiology in 2023, he's fascinated by ...

For over 40 years, astronomers have been puzzled by strange X-ray signals from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf. Now, they may ...

Astronomers have discovered that a pair of stars—one white dwarf and one red dwarf—are sending out radio pulses every two ...

MAROON-X was specifically designed to detect tiny exoplanets orbiting red dwarf stars by detecting the minuscule ...

TRAPPIST-1 is a red dwarf star about 40.7 light-years away from Earth. It is of particular interest because it has seven ...