Tags: stars

As you learn more about the night sky, you’ve undoubtedly noticed three stars, equidistant from one another, that shine brightly as they pass overhead each night between October and March....

LIFE outside our solar system could be around K stars, scientists reckon. K stars are dimmer than our Sun but brighter than the faintest M Stars. Experts say planets orbiting...

The «Christmas star,» a rare celestial event that occurs when Jupiter and Saturn, the two largest planets in the Solar System, form what looks like a double planet, was one...

Here’s a mind-blowing figure for you: 4,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000. In case you’re wondering what all those digits signify, that’s the number of photons — more compactly expressed as 4 x...

Heavyweight stars up to hundreds of times the mass of the sun may be more abundant than previously thought, a new study finds. These findings suggest that black holes and...

Three exoplanets are in the process of being born around a young star that’s not too far from the sun, two new studies report. That star is the 4-million-year-old HD...

Astronomers have spotted signs of a possible exoplanet in a nearby system of twin failed stars. If confirmed, the alien world would be one of the closest to our sun...

A stunning and vast map of the cosmos has been published by the European Space Agency (ESA), showing over one billion stars in the Milky Way and beyond. The map...

Two of the extrasolar planets are considered super-Earths, more massive than Earth but less massive than Uranus and Neptune. Spotting true Earth-sized planets is challenging with current technology, but the...

It’s a dark, clear, moonless night. You look up into the sky. You see thousands of stars arranged in patterns or constellations. The light from these stars has traveled great...