The biggest planet in the Solar System. And the smallest star in the known Universe. Today, they are on a collision course.

"WIMPs are still the leading candidate for dark matter, but billions of dollars of experiments have been done, only getting ...

Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt and the closest dwarf planet to Earth. Discovered in 1801 and visited by ...

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted two rare kinds of dust in the dwarf galaxy Sextans A, one ...

A new survey maps nearby K-type stars and shows why these long-lived, stable stars are important targets in the search for ...

Though the characteristics of K-type stars make them favourable targets in the study of habitability, they haven't received ...

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

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 ...

Carnegie's Luke Bouma presented exciting new research at the American Astronomical Society meeting revealing how large clumps ...

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