In late 2017, a mysterious object tore through our solar system at breakneck speed. Astronomers scrambled to observe the fast ...

Since astronomers started discovering extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets," in the mid-1990s, worlds orbiting other stars have demonstrated that, compared to our somewhat mundane solar system ...

A dim star in the night sky 3,000 light-years from our solar system could soon become visible ... Trace the Big Dipper's ...

The last time the star exploded was in 1946 ... All you need to know about planets in our solar system Our solar system is made up of nine planets with Earth the third closest to the Sun.

The two brightest nighttime stars available in the Minnesota and Wisconsin sky are Sirius and Arcturus. April is the only ...

Stargazers watched the skies with bated breath on Thursday night in hopes that T Coronae Borealis, a system consisting of a hot, red giant star and a ... NASA's Parker Solar Probe will fly by ...

Follow the arc of its handle to Arcturus, the fourth brightest star in the sky, shining with an orange hue in the Boötes constellation above the east. Next, locate Vega, a brilliant blue-white ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A dim star light years away could dramatically explode this week — becoming visible to the naked eye. Scientists say the star system in the constellation Corona Borealis ...

Two orbiting stars comprise the Blaze Star. One of them is a red giant. The other is a dense, Earth-sized white dwarf.

THE explosion of a distant star light years away could be visible ... All you need to know about planets in our solar system ...