Have you ever wondered how many stars you can see at night? From a perfect dark sky location, free from any light pollution, a person with excellent vision may observe a few thousand stars in the sky ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered that a hazy sky over frozen Pluto is helping to cool the dwarf planet's atmosphere, while at the same time giving methane and other organic ...

Macquarie University Astronomer Fred Watson discusses a planet which was discovered orbiting a tiny red dwarf star. The star is about 20 per cent of the mass of the sun. “It seems to have ...

Scientists have discovered a giant planet orbiting a tiny red dwarf star, something they believed wasn t even possible. The planet, TOI-6894b, is about the size of Saturn but orbits a star just a ...

The dwarf planet candidate’s closest point to the sun is about 7 billion kilometers, roughly 45 times that of Earth’s distance. One trip around the sun takes more than 24,000 years.

Some scientists think they discovered a new dwarf planet at the edge of the solar system, so far away that it takes around 25,000 years to complete one orbit around the sun. Astrophysicist Dr ...

Astronomer breaks down "strongest evidence yet" of life on distant planet 04:06. Astronomers announced Wednesday they have discovered a massive planet orbiting a tiny star, a bizarre pairing that ...

A sweeping new ICE operation shows how Donald Trump’s focus on immigration is reshaping federal law enforcement. Higher steel tariffs kick in. A potential new dwarf planet is identified. And ...

A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 years to complete one orbit around the sun. The object, known as 2017 ...

An artist's impression of a newly discovered giant planet named TOI-6894 b (top right) orbiting a red dwarf star (center) about 20% the mass of the sun, the image was released on June 4, 2025.

A team of researchers discovered a giant planet, dubbed TOI-6894b, orbiting a low-mass red dwarf star about 241 light-years away from Earth. The findings, published June 4 in the journal Nature ...

I originally searched through TESS observations of more than 91,000 low-mass red-dwarf stars looking for giant planets. “Then, using observations taken with one of the world’s largest telescopes, ...