A team of astronomers has just published a detailed catalog of 2,100 stars, considered as potentially hosting planets ...

The spectra measurements enable astronomers to figure out these stars’ age, spin rate, temperature, and location, among other ...

A new survey maps nearby K-type stars and shows why these long-lived, stable stars are important targets in the search for ...

There will come a time that the universe will turn dark. A time after all the stars die out. We know that our beloved Sun will soon lose its energy. When this happens, humans must find another ...

If you're worried about climate change, rising authoritarianism worldwide, or widespread automation replacing workers, take heart--in a few trillion years (ok, more like 10 10 3 years) heat death of ...

Observations using the Kepler space telescope revealed that the ultracool brown dwarf 2MASS 0335+23, approximately 23 million years old, exhibits powerful flares exceeding the intensity of solar ...

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If you want to start an argument among astronomers, ask them if Pluto is a planet. In 2006 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) defined a planet as an object which 1) orbits the Sun, 2) is ...