Studying the star, called SDSS J0715-7334, could give astronomers insights into how the universe's first stars were formed ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope enters a critical phase as funding decisions and final design work determine whether ...

29 Cygni b is 15 times the weight of Jupiter and occupies a borderline position between a star and a massive planet.

New research led by Gonzalo Muñoz-Sanchez at the National Observatory of Athens, published in Nature Astronomy, finds that ...

Planets, like those in our solar system, form in a bottom-up process where small bits of rock and ice clump together and grow larger over time. But the heftier the planet, the harder it is to explain ...

The star is the most chemically pristine star ever seen, with barely any heavy elements.

A dim red giant just out of reach of the Milky Way is providing astronomers with an incredibly rare glimpse into the earliest ...

For decades, astronomers were only able to study the universe's very first stars using theoretical models. Now, observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed what may be the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have investigated the star-forming region W51, resulting in stunning new ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has glimpsed the most distant single star it's ever observed, glimmering 28 billion light-years away. And the star could be between 50 to 500 times more massive than our sun ...

Astronomers have nicknamed the HD 61005 star system the “Moth” because it is surrounded by dust patterned similarly to the ...