How does a star affect the makeup of its planets? And what does this mean for the habitability of distant worlds? Carnegie's ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

Carnegie's Luke Bouma presented exciting new research at the American Astronomical Society meeting revealing how large clumps ...

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

Data from the Kepler project has confirmed a new world that fulfills the telescope's goal of locating Earth-sized planets ...

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

Scientists have identified an unexpected way to study the hidden space weather of distant stars by observing strange, ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

"Recent studies suggest that the lunar farside experienced a magma ocean evolution similar to that of the nearside," the team ...

The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals, according to NASA.

"We found something never seen before and, more importantly, entirely unexpected," team leader Simone Scaringi of Durham ...

Though the characteristics of K-type stars make them favourable targets in the study of habitability, they haven't received ...