A team led by UdeM researchers confirms a fifth potentially habitable planet around L 98-59, a red dwarf 35 light-years away.

For lovers of newly identified space objects, July has indeed been an exciting month. Last week, astronomers described ...

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

The Red Sky Paradox questions why 75% of stars in our galaxy are red dwarfs with planets potentially capable of supporting ...

Pluto was once known as the ninth planet but was reclassified after scientists set clear criteria for planets. The key factor was Pluto’s inability to clear its orbital path, leading to its current ...

Our sun, currently in its prime, is expected to shine for another 5 billion years. Eventually, it will transform into a red ...

Scientists have found a planet outside of the solar system, which was in the formation phase, by using the Very Large ...

A team led by the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets (IREx) has achieved the most precise study to date of the L 98-59 planetary system ...

A team led by the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets (IREx) at the Université de Montréal has achieved the most ...

Makenzie Lystrup’s departure from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center comes soon after the resignation of the director of JPL.

Giuseppe Piazzi discovered Ceres in 1801. Initially classified as a planet, Ceres was later called an asteroid. In 2006, Ceres was reclassified as a dwarf planet. Piazzi's discovery makes him the ...

Throughout cosmic evolution, although dwarf galaxies are individually small, they are numerous and serve as the fundamental ...