"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 ...

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 ...

Rainwater Observatory in French Camp Mississippi will be offering a free 4-County Electric Foundation monthly public program series presentation called "WONDERS OF THE WINTER STARS!" This presentation ...

ESA’s CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (CHEOPS) has revealed a four-planet system whose outermost world is a small and rocky planet -- not a gas giant.

A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.

The team discovered the star by analyzing archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission. They used a prediction from the 1970s that theorized that when a star underwent direct collapse, it would leave ...

Their observations of a faint, cool M-dwarf star called LHS 1903 revealed a system with a rocky world at its outer edge. LHS 1903 is an ancient star, around seven billion years old, and only has about ...

Now researchers think they've solved the mystery of one of the longest star-dimming events ever recorded. The star, called ASASSN-24fw, may have disappeared behind a giant planet with an enormous ...

You can’t officially name a star after your Valentine. But you can plan a romantic evening of star-gazing and point out the officially named stars visible at this time of year. Betelgeuse, Sirius and ...