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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Astrophysics combines physics and astronomy to explain everything from the smallest particles to the largest galaxy clusters.

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

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

Theories on planet formation are extensive, but evidence is sometimes lacking. It has now been observed how an exoplanet ...