An international group of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge have shown that we will be able to learn about the masses of the earliest stars by studying a specific radio signal – created ...

Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to light with the formation of the first stars and galaxies is a ...

This might sound like an obvious thing for a professional stargazer to say. But astrophysicist Federica Bianco was reacting ...

T Coronae Borealis, a binary star system about 3,000 light years away, is usually far too dim to see with the naked eye. However, after the star goes nova, the system is expected to be as bright as ...

A space robot said "good night" to the moon as it completed its two-week mission, capturing the first high-definition images ... Several planets found orbiting star less than 6 light-years away ...

This cosmic web acts as the scaffolding on which all visible structures in the Universe are built: within the filaments, gas flows to fuel star formation in galaxies ... obtained an unprecedented high ...

Since 2014, the planetarium and astronomy center has been housed at the edge of campus, with a high-definition dome projector for programming ... whether it be onboard a space station or flying ...

The proposed new definition specifies that the body may orbit one or more stars, brown dwarfs or stellar remnants and sets mass limits that should apply to planets everywhere. In 2006, the ...

Astronomers are proposing a new, more quantitative definition of what makes a planet. The new definition looks more directly ...

study co-author Brett Gladman, who is an astronomy professor at the ... now know of thousands of 'planets' orbiting other stars, but the IAU definition applies only to those in our solar system ...