Yet up to last week it held rank as the largest star known to astronomy. Last week Antares dropped to second place as news came out of University of Chicago’s Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light-years away from the Milky Way.

Among the largest known stars previously known were the Pistol ... both are utterly dwarfed by the vast new discovery. According to ‘Astronomy Now,’ R136a1 gives off more energy than all ...

The Stratospheric Observatory of Infrared Astronomy flies high above the clouds to capture information about the stars. Video courtesy of NASA Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook More from Tech NASA ...

Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious movements of stars in Omega Centauri, the largest star cluster ... The work is published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.

Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the ...

Published in the journal Nature Astronomy, the discovery marks this record-breaking achievement—the largest number of individual stars detected in the distant universe. It also provides a way to ...