The detection of methane in the atmosphere of the dwarf planet has further made its classification as T-type instead of ...

Located just over four light-years away, it’s the closest star to our solar system. This proximity alone makes it a focus of ... resembling solar flares from our Sun – but with much greater impact. In ...

Barnard’s Star is located just 6 light-years away from us. It is the closest single star to the Sun and the fourth closest ...

If future Mars colonizers want to survive without pressure suits, they’ll need to generate a denser atmosphere. One way to ...

Located 5.97 light-years from Earth, it is the fourth-closest star to our solar system, following the three stars of the Alpha Centauri system. (Five potential planets have also been detected ...

A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our nearest solitary stellar neighbor ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima Centauri.

The two brightest nighttime stars visible in the Pottsville sky are Sirius and Arcturus. April is the only month of the year ...

Sirius, in the constellation Canis Major, is the brightest star in the sky. It’s twice as massive as the Sun. Canopus, the ...