Located 15,000 light-years away in a region of the Milky Way brimming with stars, gas and dust, this object could be a highly ...

Using Chandra and the SKA Pathfinder, a team of astronomers found that ASKAP J1832 also dropped off in X-rays and radio waves ...

A massive barred spiral galaxy from the early Universe has stunned astronomers by forming stars at 300 times the rate of the ...

The newly discovered object, named 2017 OF201, has a 25,000-year orbit and is believed to be a large contender for dwarf ...

This ancient age helps settle a longstanding astrophysical debate. Astronomers typically estimate stellar ages using gyrochronology from the rotation period. Young stars spin fast and slow down as ...

and researchers were able to apply it to an older and colder star. This technical breakthrough also came with some scientific surprises. HD 219134 is an orange dwarf 21 light-years from Earth ...

It is likely twice the age of the Milky Way and orbits a K-type star -- also known as orange dwarfs -- in just 1.4 days, according to NASA. K-type stars are cooler and less massive than the sun.

MORE: How global warming could threaten satellites, according to new study It is likely twice the age of the Milky Way and orbits a K-type star -- also known as orange dwarfs -- in just 1.4 days, ...

However, there are plenty of small or dwarf plants that have all the beauty ... flowers that come in vivid shades of pink, red, and orange, or brilliant white. When mature, flowering quinces ...

Roughly the size of Mercury or Earth’s Moon, the planet orbits an orange dwarf star once every 30.5 hours, traveling in an ultra-tight path that brings it 20 times closer to its star than Mercury is ...

Roughly the size of Mercury or Earth's Moon, the planet orbits an orange dwarf star once every 30.5 hours, traveling in an ultra-tight path that brings it 20 times closer to its star than Mercury ...

A light year is the distance light travels in a year, 9.5 trillion km. Its host star, a type called an orange dwarf, is smaller, cooler and dimmer than the Sun, with about 70 per cent of the Sun ...