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

Artist's rendition of the space weather around M dwarf TIC 141146667.  The torus of ionized gas is sculpted by the star's magnetic field and rotation, with two pinched, dense clumps present on ...

NASA’s IXPE has become the first observatory to measure a white dwarf star. It used its X-Ray polarization to reveal the ...

On Saturday (Jan. 10), for example, we will see three satellites on one side of Jupiter (going outward from the planet: Ganymede, Io and Europa ), while the fourth ( Callisto) remains all by itself on ...

This artist’s concept depicts a smaller white dwarf star pulling material from a larger star, right, into an accretion disk.

Jupiter-like planet 8 UMi b, named Halla, orbits its host red giant star Baekdu closely. The red giant's merger with a white ...

NASA’s IXPE captures the first X-ray polarization data from a white dwarf system, detailing observations of EX Hydrae and ...

For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a rogue planet, one that doesn't orbit a star, by measuring ...

Through Carnegie Mellon University’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program, junior physics major Joao Passos is studying brown dwarfs — objects bigger than planets but smaller than stars — ...

On January 5, 2005, astronomers at NASA discovered Eris, the second-largest dwarf planet in the solar system. Eris is just ...

Scientists have discovered a rogue planet roaming the Milky Way after combining observations from Earth and a space telescope ...

Ground and space-based telescopes have confirmed a microlensing event caused by a rogue planet wandering silently through the ...