A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

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

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 ...

The current show, “We Are Stars,” is a journey through the galaxy’s creation, narrated by Andy Serkis. Since 1967, the ...

This dazzling spectacle—due to powerful winds flowing from the stars—marks a major milestone in the ability to study the formation of the largest ... published in the Astronomy & Astrophysics ...

This dazzling spectacle – due to powerful winds flowing from the stars -- marks a major milestone in the ability to study the formation of the largest stars and to better understand how they ... A ...

Scientists using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission have made a groundbreaking discovery: a massive exoplanet ...

Project Phoenix’ was initiated by small research organisation known as the SETI Institute. But it was lucky to get off the ...

At the of age 30, he arrived at Mount Wilson Observatory in Southern California just in time to use the new Hooker 100-inch ...

Watch a bright Moon dominate the sky, trace the Winter Hexagon, and continue enjoying the evening parade of planets in the ...

Missing planets? That literally happens all the time IRL. Here's why the Star Wars trope of incomplete star maps and missing ...