This week’s episode of The Rings of Power, “Halls of Stone,” begins in the crumbling realm of Khazad-dûm. As the mountain peaks dissolve into the Ring of Thrór, it’s clear the story is entering a new ...

Are Sun-like stars the only stars where Earth-like worlds exist? This is what a recent study presented this morning at the ...

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

Researchers from Spain have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting the star, GJ-740, a red dwarf star located 36 light-years from Earth. While red dwarf stars are significantly older than our Sun, ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-size planet orbiting an ultracool red dwarf star similar in size to Jupiter. The red dwarf, located some 55 light-years away, is 100 times less bright than the sun ...

Astronomers estimate that about 6%25 of %22red dwarf%22 stars host Earth-sized worlds on habitable orbits The estimate is based on data from NASA%27s Kepler space telescope. The find suggests that ...

For the first time, researchers have discovered three potentially habitable, Earth-like worlds orbiting an ultracool dwarf star 40 light-years away in another star system, according to a study ...

Brown dwarf stars are bizarre objects, which straddle the gap between fully functional stars, and massive planets like Jupiter. Brown dwarfs aren’t massive enough to start nuclear fusion in their ...

NASA has taken a surprising new look at a white dwarf star called EX Hydrae, revealing details that astronomers have never ...

There’s a new exoplanet on the galactic map. A rocky planet roughly the same size and density of Earth has been discovered orbiting a nearby red dwarf star, thanks to new data gathered by telescopes ...