When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's ...

Canadian astronomical research is getting a big boost with the return of Sara Seager to Canada after around 20 years at MIT.

Across modern astronomy, the most striking pattern is not a single spectacular discovery but a drumbeat of similar clues.

The Sun, our nearest celestial neighbor, is undeniably a star, not a planet, as centuries of astronomical observations have ...

The historic Lowell Observatory announced this week that it will drastically reduce internally funded research and shrink its ...

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An exoplanet is what we call planets that exist outside of our own solar system. The first one was discovered in 1992, but as we get more powerful and precise telescopes and instruments, scientists ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new exoplanet orbiting a bright K-type star known as TOI-283. The newfound alien world, ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system that most often orbit a star. Astronomers have managed to bring an exoplanet into unprecedented focus by using a technique the researchers call 3D ...