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 ...

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

A closer look at the Helix Nebula reveals how dying stars shed material, shape space, and hint at the distant future of our own Sun.

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

Learn about Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, the Indian-born astrophysicist and recent recipient of the RAS Gold Medal, known for his ...

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 ...

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