The orbit is seen almost edge-on from Earth and as the exoplanet passes in front of the star once per orbit it blocks a little of its light...

London, April 20 (IANS) An international team of astronomers has discovered a so-called "super-Earth" that could contain liquid water, a si...

As it travels inwards to be ingested by the black hole, the material heats up to millions of degrees and generates a distinct X-ray flare.

The centre of the Milky Way galaxy is currently a quiet place where a supermassive black hole slumbers, only occasionally slurping small si...

The primordial universe consisted mostly of hydrogen and helium, and lacked chemical elements like carbon and oxygen necessary for life as ...

The main star is also brighter than the other stars that serve as suns for their planets, making it easier to study both the star and the p...

The study of the young, Sun-like star Kappa Ceti shows that a magnetic field plays a key role in making a planet conducive to life.

Researchers said that this is one of the nearest super massive black holes to Earth that is currently undergoing such violent outbursts.

This discovery validates a long-held theory that white dwarfs are capable of cannibalising possible remnant planets that have survived with...

Astronomer Igor Chilingarian said the galaxies were "facing a lonely future, exiled from the galaxy clusters they used to live in,".

A remote gas planet about 13,000 light-years away has been discovered by scientists using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

Astronomers have detected presence of complex organic molecules, the building blocks of life, in a protoplanetary disc surrounding a young ...

Eight new worlds beyond our solar system, including two of the most Earth-like planets discovered so far, boost the number of Kepler's conf...

The "test kitchen" of Earth has given us a detailed recipe, but it was not clear whether other planetary systems would follow the same form...

A ground-based telescope has observed a super-Earth planet passing in front of a Sun-like star. The planet is about twice the size of Earth.

Scientists have finally decoded why the Sun's million-degree corona or outermost atmosphere is so much hotter than its surface, which has b...

Kepler-421b orbits an orange, type K star that is cooler & dimmer than Sun. It circles the star at a distance of about 177 mn kms.