Red specks in the early universe are puzzling astronomers, but a proposed explanation suggests they are the progenitors of ...

As the great detective said, "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the ...

"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." ...

The nearby T Coronae Borealis system could still explode any day now, but calculations suggest the next best chance for ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

A puzzling new type of radio signal – lasting seconds to minutes – has been linked to a binary star system featuring a white ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

An illustration shows a star exploding as a "Intermediate Luminosity Red Transients" or "ILRT ... below the detection threshold of this NASA space telescope, which retired in 2020.

Astronomers have identified the source of strange radio flashes: a binary system containing a white dwarf, the remnant of a Sun-like star.

Astronomers rely on clear observations to study celestial objects, but cosmic dust alters what we see, making stars appear ...