Discover a massive starspot and its persistent pimple on a distant star, shedding light on stellar magnetic activity and long ...

A band of misfits aboard a stolen planet-killing starship, the wild, weird Lexx is the best 90s sci-fi show you've never seen ...

Smartphones require some pretty specific pieces of tech (and specific materials) in order to work. As it turns out, those ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured three brown dwarfs in an amazing view of star cluster IC 348, located about 1000 ...

Scientists are turning to simulations and experiments to understand how life-indicating molecules behave, so we might know ...

New research has revealed that mysterious ‘rogue planets’ could be assembling scaled-down planetary systems of their own.

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a rare, retrograde-orbiting planet in a tight binary star system. Most stars throughout the Universe are part of binary or multiple star systems. In these ...

The Sun is often viewed as a typical star,a common yellow dwarf quietly powering our Solar System. But is it truly ordinary, ...

Researchers studied the L 98-59 system and confirmed five rocky planets. One is in the habitable zone and may support liquid water.

This splash of paint on the canvas of space is the planetary nebula NGC 6072, the dying embers of a ruined star that has ...

Dark Matter in Failed Stars According to the new model, dense brown dwarfs at the centers of galaxies act like gravity wells that accumulate dark matter. Because dark matter interacts only via gravity ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can explode not once, but twice before fading forever.