Astronomers are once again getting excited about a rare nova that could appear in the night sky anytime from now into the ...

Any day now, a massive stellar blast dubbed "the Blaze Star" could light up the night sky so brightly, you won't even need a ...

At a frigid -125 degrees Fahrenheit (-87 degrees Celsius), WD 1856+534 b is the coldest planet ever directly observed, ...

which contains a red giant star and a smaller white dwarf star. Because the two stars are gravitationally bound to and in orbit around each other, the white dwarf star – similar in size to Earth ...

"It's like trying to spot a fish by looking for ripples in a pond, rather than trying to see the fish itself." ...

Astronomers are excitedly waiting for the arrival of a new light in the sky this year that appears once every 80 years. The ...

K2-18b is an exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star called K2-18, chilling 124 light-years away in the Leo constellation. It’s about 2.6 times the size of Earth, making it what astronomers call a ...