An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new giant exoplanet around an M-dwarf star (GEMS). The ...

A small international team of astronomers has confirmed that a binary star system with an odd signal has a companion—a planet ...

Periodic radio emissions have been discovered in a binary system of white and red dwarf stars with an orbit time of 125 ...

After two decades of debate, research confirms that an odd binary star system has an equally odd planetary companion ...

WD 1856+534b—a freezing world with a surface temperature of -125 degrees Fahrenheit—exists where planets are normally scoured ...

For the first time, astronomers have spotted a rapidly spinning neutron star that is gravitationally bound to a helium star companion. The discovery of this unusual binary system helps confirm a long ...

The U.S. DOGE Service’s push for early retirement and deferred resignation is leading to a federal brain drain, longtime ...

A Cape Cod astronomer is tracking T Coronae Borealis, a star system that's expected to go nova soon. Here’s what you need to ...

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ...

Dimethyl sulfide is cool—and a potential biosignature—but scientists are urging caution before we declare a plankton party some 120 light-years away.

Scientists have shared the universe may end "sooner than we feared," due to a phenomenon called Hawking radiation.