A large proportion of the most common type of planet in the galaxy could be situated in the habitable "Goldilocks Zone" of their solar system, research has found. Astronomers from the University of ...

Do aliens sleep? You may take sleep for granted, but research suggests many planets that could evolve life don’t have a day and night cycle. It’s hard to imagine, but there are organisms living in ...

A 2020 microlensing event was caused by a planetary system with an Earth-like planet and brown dwarf. The star type was uncertain. The team has determined that the star is a white dwarf, a system ...

A dwarf planet near Mars could help astronomers in their search for alien life, as more research has been done into its abundance of organic matter. The planet, named Ceres, lies in the asteroid belt ...

University of Florida astronomers have discovered that a third of the planets around the most common stars in the galaxy could be in a goldilocks orbit close enough to hold onto liquid water – and ...

A first ever detection of a coronal mass ejection from a small red dwarf could have big consequences for life on any nearby ...

Astronomers have just discovered a new Earth-sized exoplanet around SPECULOOS-3, an 'ultracool dwarf' star as small as Jupiter, twice as cold as our Sun, and located 55 light-years from Earth. After ...

Astronomers have long relied on two main methods to detect exoplanets—the transit method, which looks for dips in a star’s brightness when a planet passes in front of it, and the radial velocity ...

A dwarf planet once believed to be an asteroid is visible in our night skies month, and it shares a namesake with a common breakfast. The tiny planet Ceres is named after the Roman goddess of ...

Images of the area of the microlensing event, indicated by perpendicular white lines, years before the event (a), shortly after peak magnification of the background star in 2020 (b) and in 2023 after ...