The Sun, our nearest celestial neighbor, is undeniably a star, not a planet, as centuries of astronomical observations have ...

Austin (KXAN) — A tiny baby planet is making waves in the science community. Named WISPIT 2b, the growing planet is the first planet of its kind to be basically photographed growing inside its star’s ...

The nearby star Vega holds a special place in human culture. Located just 25 light-years away, this shining beacon—about twice the mass of the sun and 40 times as bright—is so prominent in Earth’s ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called ...

During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and color to show ...

A stunning corner of the cosmos was recently revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope, and astronomers think the find will unveil more about the mysteries of both star and planet formation. Hiding ...

Astronomers offered a new hypothesis for what created pairs of objects nicknamed JuMBOs, while other scientists argue they may not really exist. The Orion Nebula, top, seen from La Hayuela, Cantabria, ...

The new year will bring a pair of lunar eclipses, but don’t expect any sun-disappearing acts like the one that mesmerized North America last spring. While the world will have to wait until 2026 for ...

Richard Fishacre challenged the scientific orthodoxy of his day, and contemporary astrophysics has vindicated his position.