Astronomers have discovered a giant Saturn-sized planet orbiting TOI-6894, the smallest star ever known to host such a world.

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

An international team of scientists, led by Northwestern University astrophysicists, has detected a never-before-seen type of ...

"In science fiction, there are scenes where a beam is fired at something to destroy it, causing an explosion with debris ...

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

A bright flash of radio waves from 3 billion years after the big bang is illuminating parts of the universe that astronomers ...

Two of the objects in the arrangement are cold brown dwarfs, which will serve as a benchmark for others throughout the Milky ...

Astronomers have seen a lot of stars explode, but one unusual stellar death is forcing them to rethink what they thought they ...

Astronomers have glimpsed the inner structure of a dying star in a rare kind of cosmic explosion called an "extremely ...

But observing galaxies is one thing. Observing the formation of individual stars more than 13 billion years ago is functionally impossible. Fortunately, supercomputer simulations can get us close.

Here's how a star beyond Earth's sun could offer a 'picture of the baby solar system' The finding marks a major milestone in the study of planetary formation and opens a window into the past of ...

- The HeH⁺ ion was the first molecule to form in the early universe, before the first stars were born. - Researchers have investigated reactions of HeH+ with hydrogen atoms under conditions ...