Stars are born in clouds of gas and dust, making it difficult to observe their early development. But researchers at Chalmers ...

Stars like our own Sun produce “superflares” around once every 100 years, surprising astronomers who had previously estimated that such events occurred only every 3000 to 6000 years. The result, from ...

Learn about Spica, Virgo's brightest and most mysterious star. It's a twin-star system that shines as a beacon in the night sky.

Earth" and a massive outer planet, revealing insights into extreme planetary evolution. An international research team, led ...

A very rare treat is about to grace Earth's night skies.

There are billion of binary star systems in our galaxy, including many of those stars closest to us. Can such systems host life, and what would it be like to live under two suns?

Taking advantage of a cosmic 'double lens,' astronomers resolved more than 40 individual stars in a galaxy so far away its light dates back to when the universe was only half its present age.

The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant ...

Learn how T Coronae Borealis, a recurrent nova known as the Blaze Star, will likely light up in the night sky later in 2025 ...

In new research, we have for the first time tracked one of these pulsating signals back to its source: a common kind of lightweight star called a red dwarf, likely in a binary orbit with a white dwarf ...

The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant galaxy. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, history's largest and most ...

"Even if a planet is in the habitable zone, if it has too small a water inventory, it transitions to an uninhabitable state." ...