Tags: stars

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...

The possibility for alien life increases when two stars are pushed together by a third, according to new research announced Tuesday. Astronomers at the University of Sheffield in the U.K....

Astronomers have captured a remarkable image of two growing exoplanets circling a young star. The newborn planets are gravitationally carving out a wide gap within “a planet-forming disk” surrounding the...

There’s a prosaic explanation for at least some of the weirdness of «Tabby’s star,» it would appear. The bizarre long-term dimming of Tabby’s star — also known as Boyajian’s star,...