Using Georgia State’s CHARA Array, an international team of scientists has uncovered unexpected complexity in how stars ...

Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...

New observations of a nearby red giant star suggest that a long-standing explanation for how giant stars spread life’s ...

Animation of the findings by researchers who used time-delay cosmography to independently confirm that the universe’s current ...

A mysterious force called Dark Energy might be changing, in a way that challenges our current understanding of the nature of ...

The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have dubbed ...

Planetary size was determined pre-spacecraft by measuring the planet's angular diameter and its distance from Earth (in AU, later converted to terrestrial units after the AU was accurately measured ...

Astronomers at Queen’s have come up with simulations of what they believe the data could show. Dr Nicholl said: “We’re ...

A groundbreaking discovery published in Nature Astronomy has revealed a cosmic phenomenon that may finally settle a 30-year-old mystery surrounding the early life cycles of stars. Astronomers ...

Visitors to the Sunwheel can see the sun rising and setting over the winter solstice stones from approximately Dec. 16 through Dec. 26. During this period the sun appears to rise at a fixed spot on ...

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with perfectly synchronized orbits. It was also the start of a whirlwind of discovery.

The first pulsar was discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Finding these mysterious signals forever changed astronomy.