"Very massive stars are like the 'rock stars' of the universe — they are powerful, and they live fast and die young." ...

According to the latest studies led by Heidelberg University astronomers, low-mass stars quite often host Earth-like planets. Data collected as part of the CARMENES project were the basis of this ...

Get ready to feel small: The sun is 99.8 percent of the mass of the solar system. Here are more colossal facts about our star.

They happen when massive stars – much bigger than our Sun – go too close to a supermassive black hole and are torn to pieces.

The universe is vast, and while our solar system is the center of our everyday lives, it is just a tiny part of the cosmic ...

The researchers concluded that large space weather events from stars younger than our Sun could play a vital role in the evolution of their planets’ atmosphere and habitability potential. What new ...

Mercury reaches its point of greatest eastern elongation on Friday (July 4), presenting an excellent opportunity to spot the ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions of times more than our sun, in galaxies that formed less than 750 ...

Exploding stars V462 Lupi and V572 Velorum are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere. One has been spotted from the United States.

Exoplanets are the celestial bodies orbiting stars other than our Sun. Their small size makes them difficult to detect from Earth, particularly as they appear much dimmer than their parent stars.

But subsequent research and observations -- including that of a planet orbiting a star other than our sun in 1992 -- have led Hawking to believe that in the creation of our universe God is ...