In the run up to Christmas, carols fill the air. Many have an astronomical twist, singing of the "Christmas Star" from the ...

But the Big Bang theory predicts that about 5% of the universe's contents should be atoms made of protons, neutrons and ...

Brian Cox once toured as a keyboardist in major rock and pop bands. Now he’s a particle physicist on a new world tour with a ...

New observations of a nearby red giant star suggest that a long-standing explanation for how giant stars spread life’s essential elements through the galaxy may be incomplete. Starlight pushing on gra ...

Astronomers have been treated to a stunning fireworks display from around a young star called The events, detected in 2004 ...

Technical terms used in the Bible’s description point to a real astronomical event that could explore the origin of the star ...

A groundbreaking discovery published in Nature Astronomy has revealed a cosmic phenomenon that may finally settle a ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

Technically, the sun is a G-type main-sequence star — specifically, a G2V star. The "V" indicates that it is a dwarf, Tony ...

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

The discovery is the first direct observational confirmation of a theory for how young stars feed on, and then explosively ...

Researchers from Yunnan University, the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the ...