"Discoveries like this are cosmic archaeology, uncovering rare stellar fossils that preserve the fingerprints of the universe ...

Kepler-51d is the coolest and least dense of the planets in this planetary system. “We think the three inner planets orbiting ...

Brown dwarfs get a bad rap in the stellar world, often labeled as "failed stars" for their inability to sustain nuclear ...

Space may appear timeless, but modern astronomy reveals dramatic changes unfolding across the cosmos. Using decades of ...

The Sun may have been part of a small group of stars that migrated from the core of our galaxy between 4 and 6 billion years ago.

In the Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, researchers report a comprehensive modernization of CHARA’s delay line control system that the team implemented with AZ Embedded ...

Using a novel technique that examines the motion of two nearby galaxy groups within their surrounding cosmic flow, an ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet with a surface of molten magma and a sulfur-rich atmosphere, 34 light-years away in the constellation Volans. This planet is larger than Earth but less dense, ...

When Anastasios Tzanidakis was sifting through some older telescope observations, he stumbled across something that should ...

A recorded radio interview with Dutch astronomer, astrophysicist, and council communist theorist Anton Pannekoek in New York ...

Still in its original galaxy, a rare holdout from the second generation of stars sheds new light on the origins of the ...

Astronomers reportedly reacted with half scientific curiosity and half disbelief when they first saw it in the telescope data ...