"The most likely explanation for the dimming is a brown dwarf – an object heavier than a planet but lighter than a star – surrounded by a vast and dense ring system." ...

One of the sky's two celestial owls (the other is the Owl Nebula [M97]) takes silent flight in Cassiopeia's rich star fields.

A recently published study in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has uncovered an intriguing explanation for ...

On an empty beach at the bottom of the world, the waves that roll over the sand are midnight blue and lit by the stars and a waxing moon. I'm only vaguely familiar with the constellations that hang ...

As more and more satellite megaconstellations continue to be launched into Earth orbit, some researchers are beginning to ...