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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A study led by Jenny Frediani at Stockholm University has revealed a planet-forming disk with a strikingly unusual chemical composition: an unexpectedly high abundance of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in ...

WISPIT 2b, a gas giant forming around a young Sun-like star, has been directly imaged for the first time inside a spectacular multi-ringed disk. Still glowing and actively accreting gas, the planet ...

When stars like the Sun die, they go through a phase of rapid ... leaving behind a remnant called a white dwarf. I am a professor of astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2020, my ...