Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy that would pulse every two hours, like a cosmic heartbeat. The long radio ...

NASA has captured a stunning view of the birth of a star, revealing details never seen before. This breakthrough offers a ...

Astronomers have detected four small planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, one of the closest stars to Earth, at just six ...

Considered a solitary star for its lack of stellar companions, Barnard's Star is notoriously lonely—signs of any exoplanets ...

Many astronomers and amateur sky watchers stayed up into the wee hours of Friday morning to catch a lunar eclipse.

BL Lacertae blazar shifts between classifications faster than expected. It shows record X-ray activity and challenges current ...

Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it ...

Isabella Castel-branco explores the excitement of planetary alignments, debunking common misconceptions and highlighting the best ways to observe February’s night sky.

Barnard’s Star has fascinated astronomers for decades. At just six light-years away, it is the second-closest single star to ...

You can make the case that none of them are in true color. But then again, if they were, they’d be unable to reveal the true ...

"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." ...