Life could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...

A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in ...

Decades of constant X-ray emission from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf suggest debris from a Jupiter-sized planet steadily rains upon the star.

gradually migrating inward toward the dead star as a result of gravitational interactions with other planets in this system. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching ...

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In 1992 astronomers reported the first planet-size masses around a dead star, the pulsar ... which all involve both ground- and space-based observatories. As of January 2012, the tally of ...