A mysterious object has caused a long-lasting and extreme dimming of a distant star, but is this object a 'failed star' brown dwarf, or an exceptionally massive super-Jupiter exoplanet?

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 ...

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

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

Things are much bigger outside the solar system.

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

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 ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to head out during the early morning hours of February 11 to see the Moon pass quite close to the 1st-magnitude star Antares ...

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