"We have by and large been ignoring triples in models and simulations — we're just starting to understand how these types of ...

Over the last century, our understanding of the evolution of stars has improved dramatically. By studying the cosmos, we have ...

Researchers identified 2,889 superflares on 2,527 of the 56,450 observed stars, meaning that on average, one sun-like star produces a superflare approximately once per century. However ...

New research sheds light on F-type stars. Could these hot and massive stars be the key to finding habitable planets and ...

New ground- and space-based infrared observations are giving astronomers a better handle on the true populations of red ...

The nearest star to our Sun, Proxima Centauri, is 4.2 light-years away, so remote that it would take even the fastest spacecraft ever built more than 7,000 years to reach. Everywhere we look in ...

It’s now the third brightest object in the sky—after the Sun and the Moon. However, its dazzling performance as the bright “Evening Star” begins to unravel this month. After reaching its ...

The same can't be said for the sun, whose name makes it easy to forget it's really an incomprehensible, scorching star. But on Christmas Eve this year, we'll be acutely reminded of the sun's ...