The universe doesn't come with an instruction manual—but if it did, University of Missouri Assistant Professor Charles ...

"When I first spotted this system with a very high total mass on our galactic doorstep, I was immediately excited." ...

Black holes are fundamental to the structure of galaxies and critical in our understanding of gravity, space, and time. A ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

A team of astronomers recently tapped into JWST’s capabilities to explore the smallest objects in the Flame Nebula.

Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick A white dwarf star is basically the corpse of a low-mass star that lost its outer layers. That can happen when a star runs out its fuel supply needed to ...

Taking over as a meteorologist, Ed Sheeran, the British singer-songwriter, warned Massachusetts residents that they can ...

Barnard’s Star, discovered by American astronomer E.E. Barnard in 1916, is a low-mass red dwarf, one of the most common types of stars. Over the past decade, astronomers have found that many of ...

MORE: 3.5 billion-year-old crater created by meteorite impact found in Australia, scientists say Barnard's Star, a low-mass red dwarf, was discovered in 1916. Since then, astronomers have ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

Though these planets are not expected to support life because of their closeness to Barnard's Star, they should be taken into ...