The Ancient City Astronomy Club is hosting an event called Night Under the Stars from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Friday at the St.

Scientists have devised a new method for mapping the spottiness of distant stars by using observations from NASA missions of ...

An international team of astronomers, co-led by researchers at the University of Galway, has made the unexpected discovery of ...

Researchers describe the newly discovered binary system as a cosmic oddball. Stars often reach the end of their lives and fade from view, but astronomers were left baffled when a star that had ...

Throughout the Earth’s precessional cycle, different stars serve as a pole star, including Thuban, Kochab, Polaris, and Vega.

There are several candidates for the biggest star in the universe. One of them, VY Canis Majoris, is over 1,500 times the ...

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical ...

The light from Earendel has traveled to us for 13 billion years. It could be the furthest star we have ever seen, but a new ...

Astronomers have used a new type of extreme supernova in which a massive star was stripped right "down to the bone" to better ...

Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, may not be alone. And its potential companion may be responsible for ...

One of the best places to study stars is inside "open clusters," which are groups of stars that formed together from the same ...

Touch the Stars is like an introductory astronomy book that would be good for, you know, anyone who is age eight and up, because it has all sorts of typical astronomy images.