"Discoveries like this are cosmic archaeology, uncovering rare stellar fossils that preserve the fingerprints of the universe ...

As binary neutron stars spiral around each other to merge, their gravitational tidal forces distort each other's shape and ...

Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a dramatic cosmic crash unfolding around a distant star. While reviewing archived ...

In a recent Hot Take segment, the China Global Television Network recently released an interesting video detailing China's future plans for space. Titled "Earth 2.0? China's plan to find new Earth," ...

In A Nutshell Scientists have identified 6,594 solar twins, stars nearly identical to our Sun, in the largest model-driven catalog of its kind ever assembled. Each star was assigned an estimated age, ...

Discovered in the Pictor II dwarf galaxy, star PicII-503 has an extreme deficiency in iron—less than 1/40,000th of the sun. This signature makes it the clearest example of a star within a primordial ...

A tranquil-looking cloud of gas and dust might not sound like much to get excited about, but it's home to one of the most fundamental phenomena in astronomy: star formation. This is the star-forming ...

As a space scientist, every time I go outside with my family, I tell my children to look up at the sky. The front door of our home looks southeast, and on winter nights the constellation Orion hangs ...

Astrophysicists have achieved an eye-opening leap in understanding stellar death, capturing unprecedented, detailed images of two exploding stars that demonstrate these blasts are far more complicated ...

The vast majority of stars form and reside within galaxies due to the presence of cold, dense molecular gas clouds conducive to star formation. True intergalactic space, characterized by low-density ...

Alfred University is home to the Stull Observatory and its seven independent telescopes, but relatively few students have chosen to take advantage of those resources in the form of a minor in ...