This artist’s impression shows a sunset seen from the super-Earth Gliese 667 Cc. Astronomers have estimated that there are tens of billions of such rocky worlds orbiting faint red dwarf stars in the ...

Among the most prevalent stars in our galaxy are red dwarfs, M-dwarf stars that are smaller and cooler than our Sun. The ...

For all the talk about life across the cosmos, Earth remains the only confirmed example. That single data point makes your place in the universe feel both ordinary and strange. Two facts sharpen the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. An artistic impression of Trappist-1 b shortly before it ...

Scott Wolk's research, presented at the 245th American Astronomical Society meeting, focused on the X-ray emissions of Wolf 359, a red dwarf star approximately 8 light-years from Earth, to assess the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A composite image comparing the relative sizes of our solar system's known dwarf planets, ...

Scientists may have discovered a dwarf planet far beyond Neptune — an unearthing that may disprove a longstanding theory about the possibility of a giant ninth planet. The dwarf planet's existence ...

A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 years to complete one orbit around the sun. The object, known as 2017 OF201, ...

A new color movie combines more than 100 images taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during the probe's historic Pluto flyby in the summer of 2015. The dwarf planet Ceres still holds pockets of ice ...