"Discoveries like this are cosmic archaeology, uncovering rare stellar fossils that preserve the fingerprints of the universe ...
Brown dwarfs get a bad rap in the stellar world, often labeled as "failed stars" for their inability to sustain nuclear ...
As binary neutron stars spiral around each other to merge, their gravitational tidal forces distort each other's shape and ...
From star shows to laser shows, followed by free telescope viewing, can only mean one thing: there is something for everyone ...
Discovered in the Pictor II dwarf galaxy, star PicII-503 has an extreme deficiency in iron—less than 1/40,000th of the sun.
Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a dramatic cosmic crash unfolding around a distant star. While reviewing archived ...
"Baby star clusters" are aggregates of very young stars in the early stages of formation. Distinguished by their recent birth ...
As a space scientist, every time I go outside with my family, I tell my children to look up at the sky. The front door of our ...
Over 4 billion years ago, as planets were coalescing around the newborn Sun, our star may have gone on an epic road trip across the Milky Way along with thousands of stellar "twins." And we may owe ...
Kepler-51d is a giant, ultra-light “super-puff” planet wrapped in an unusually thick haze that’s blocking scientists from ...
Astronomers have discovered one of the most chemically primitive stars ever identified — an ancient stellar relic that preserves the chemical imprint ...