"The most likely explanation for the dimming is a brown dwarf – an object heavier than a planet but lighter than a star – ...

Cincinnati's Clovernook Press partners with astronomer Dean Regas to create an innovative astronomy book with braille features for all readers.

Ethiopia continues to serve as a living sanctuary for humanity's oldest intellectual pursuit, astronomy, preserving a deep and diverse celestial heritage that remains relevant in the modern scientific ...

A dazzling new Hubble image peels back the layers of the mysterious Egg Nebula, a rare and fleeting phase in a Sun-like ...

At the center of the Egg Nebula is its yolk: a deteriorating sun-like star.

The dark sky sanctuary not far from Auckland is a great place to learn about Māori road maps and wisdom.

Things are much bigger outside the solar system.

ASASSN-24fw is a star a little bigger and heavier than our Sun. It is an F-type, main-sequence star which means it is hot, bright, and stable and not prone to sudden explosions ...

Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don't ...

One of the longest stellar dimming events ever observed was likely caused by the gigantic saucer-like rings of either an unseen brown dwarf or "super-Jupiter" blocking its host star's light, ...

A distant star system with four super-sized gas giants has revealed a surprise. Thanks to JWST’s powerful vision, astronomers detected sulfur in their atmospheres — a chemical clue that they formed ...

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