"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." ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

For decades, a fractured Ancient Greek clay wine cup sitting in a museum was considered typical of pottery featuring rows of exotic animals.

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