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.

"This is the first quadruple system ever discovered with a pair of T-type brown dwarfs orbiting two stars," team member ...

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 ...

An ‘extremely stripped supernova’ confirms the existence of a key feature of physicists’ models of how stars produce the ...

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

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 ...

During the 2025 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, sidewalk astronomers brought a sense of hope into Washington, D.C.