In a blow to anyone dreaming that complex life may exist elsewhere in the universe, a new study suggests we're unlikely to find it around many of the most common stars in the galaxy. Earth-like ...

Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt and the closest dwarf planet to Earth. Discovered in 1801 and visited by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft in 2015, it has changed how scientists think about ...

Universe Today reports on new results from a large survey of nearby K-type stars, also known as orange dwarfs. The study focuses on how long-lived, stable stars shape the environments of planets that ...

Carnegie's Luke Bouma presented exciting new research at the American Astronomical Society meeting revealing how large clumps of cool plasma that are trapped in an M dwarf star's magnetosphere can be ...