Researchers describe the newly discovered binary system as a cosmic oddball. Stars often reach the end of their lives and ...

The exoplanet is the first confirmed detection of a planet in a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk, a disk that contains ...

Scientists have devised a new method for mapping the spottiness of distant stars by using observations from NASA missions of ...

"Our approach gives astronomers an idea of how many spots a star might have, where they are located, and how bright or dark ...

Astronomers at Leiden University have detected rare isotopes of carbon and oxygen in our neighboring stars for the first time ...

Throughout the Earth’s precessional cycle, different stars serve as a pole star, including Thuban, Kochab, Polaris, and Vega.

An international team of astronomers, co-led by researchers at the University of Galway, has made the unexpected discovery of ...

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical ...

The Ancient City Astronomy Club is hosting an event called Night Under the Stars from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Friday at the St.

Astronomers have imaged a huge expanding bubble of gas and dust surrounding a red supergiant star — the largest such bubble ...

Three and a half years ago, the most distant star by far was discovered. However, it may not be a single object at all.

Touch the Stars is like an introductory astronomy book that would be good for, you know, anyone who is age eight and up, because it has all sorts of typical astronomy images.