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

An international team of astronomers reports the detection of two new brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars using NASA's ...

The European physics laboratory CERN is planning to build a mega collider by 2070. Critics say the plan could lead to its ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

Books about writers’ dogs and cats are a literary staple. Now there’s a booming subset of memoirs about writers’ ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

Saturn was already the reigning champion in the moon department. Now, with 274, Saturn has more moons than all the other ...

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

New results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) suggest that the unknown force accelerating the expansion of ...