There are several candidates for the biggest star in the universe. One of them, VY Canis Majoris, is over 1,500 times the ...

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, may not be alone. And its potential companion may be responsible for ...

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

The light from Earendel has traveled to us for 13 billion years. It could be the furthest star we have ever seen, but a new ...

Astronomers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have discovered a huge expanding bubble of gas and dust ...

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.