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

Most planetary systems contain worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and the low-density planets around one ...

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

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

A potential new type of celestial object has all the makings of a normal small galaxy. It’s rich with the same hydrogen gas ...

In the companion study, currently under peer review, Webb imaged Sextans A's interstellar medium and discovered polycyclic ...

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

Thanks to Dwarf, Impulse Gamer were given an exclusive opportunity to test out the world’s smallest smart telescope, the ...

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 ...

In 1776, New Hampshire became the first American state to adopt its own constitution. The document marked a shift toward ...