The End-Permian mass extinction killed an estimated 80% of life on Earth, but new research suggests that plants might have ...
The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...
Are they stars? Are they planets? Or are they neither? Some rogue planetary mass objects that wander the cosmos alone could ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a 'rogue' cosmic object barrelling through our galaxy without a star, and covered ...
Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...
Considered a solitary star for its lack of stellar companions, Barnard's Star is notoriously lonely—signs of any exoplanets ...
How do rogue planetary-mass objects – celestial bodies that fall between planets and stars in size – come into existence? An ...
The rate of stars going supernova near Earth appears to match two mass extinctions -- 372 million years ago and 445 million ...
About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and ...
Exploding stars in near-solar space may have triggered at least two mass extinction events in Earth’s history. A new study ...
Astronomers have revealed new evidence that not just one, but four tiny planets are circling around Barnard's Star, the ...
Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard's Star, the second-nearest star system to Earth.