The challenge in the search for habitable worlds is clear. We need to be able to identify habitable worlds and distinguish ...

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A giant exoplanet is surprisingly chill given how close it is to its red dwarf star — perhaps because the star is so little.

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A newly designed, AI-powered program could solve the puzzle of binary stars in mere seconds using a common laptop, a process ...

A quartet of Earth-like worlds, each about 20% to 30% the size of our planet, circle one of our closest stellar neighbors, a ...

Scientists suggest a star and its planet are orbiting a second star in two opposite directions in an exotic binary star ...

A distant stellar nursery holds ... between how stars and planets can form, “we’re really probing the limit of the star formation process,” he says. Future work will use JWST to look at ...

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

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have directly detected the faint glow of a planet that’s colder ... News from the future, delivered to your present.