"We found something never seen before and, more importantly, entirely unexpected," team leader Simone Scaringi of Durham ...

Gaxiola, an astronomy graduate student at Georgia State University, has identified a large number of stars around which Earth ...

A mysterious, rainbow-like glow has been spotted shimmering around a dead star just 731 light-years from Earth. The ...

Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with a star's surroundings and create a shock wave.

In the run up to Christmas, carols fill the air. Many have an astronomical twist, singing of the "Christmas Star" from the story of the nativity. Described in the Gospel of Matthew, the star guided ...

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

From ancient stargazers to modern-day space scientists, women have shaped our understanding of the cosmos. This crossword ...

The discovery of stars with their outer layers of hydrogen stripped by companions fills a glaring hole in our understanding of supernovas and binary systems with colliding neutron stars. When you ...

A long-standing astronomical mystery about the first-ever discovered brown dwarf has finally been solved by scientists. The brown dwarf, named Gliese 229B, was discovered in 1995 but has puzzled ...

Astronomy is Wooten’s passion. Her love for the stars and the great beyond stemmed from a deep sense of wonder she first experienced at the age of 13. “I was walking home from a friend’s house and ...