Super-Earths can exist in wider orbits around their parent stars than was previously believed, suggesting these Earth-like ...

In a landmark discovery, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a solitary stellar-mass black hole—an object with ...

An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team shared Thursday the designs for the three core surveys the mission will conduct ...

Using the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet), an international team of researchers has discovered that super-Earth ...

For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a black hole drifting alone in space—without a companion star ...

More massive terrestrial planets like the Earth have a stronger gravitational pull and therefore can hold onto their atmospheres. For BD+05 4868 Ab, the researchers suspect there is very little ...

They have refined the estimate of the black hole mass, ruling out the possibility of it being a neutron star. It is thought ...