This artist’s impression shows the red supergiant ... of a star other than the Sun. Red supergiant stars such as Betelgeuse and Antares are the astrobiological fertilizers for our galaxy at ...

Data from the Gaia spacecraft shows that even unassuming stars can host monumental companions like massive planets.

"Despite being rare star-forming environments in our galaxy today ... incredibly explosive environments." Compared to the sun, which will enter its red giant phase in five billion years or ...

Gaia-5b, which orbits a red dwarf ... in the central star's composition, finding its chemistry to be pretty similar to that of our sun. Rocky planets, or the rocky cores of giant planets, need ...

Towards the end of the month, Mercury appears in the evening sky, and climbs up past Saturn. In the dusk glow, you may be ...

"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...

Astronomers measure a star’s brightness using the apparent magnitude system, where lower values indicate brighter stars. Sirius, Canopus, Alpha Centau ...

By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new giant "planet," plus a new brown dwarf.

BETH MERRICK loves juggling her passion for education with playing for Wolves Women’s Championship promotion chasers. ...

The sky will get a colourful nebula, and the remains of the explosion become a small, dense star. While we will not be around to see the death of our sun, UAE astronomers have captured the Medusa ...

Auroras have long mystified humanity. Now that we know what they are and why they happen, we can better predict how best to ...

Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar dominated at this year's Grammy Award s, picking up eight gongs between them including for album ...