Using NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft, TESS, astronomers and citizen scientists have discovered a record-breaking system ...

Two of the objects in the arrangement are cold brown dwarfs, which will serve as a benchmark for others throughout the Milky Way. By Katrina Miller Zenghua Zhang, an astronomer at Nanjing University ...

We refer to our own solar system as the solar system, and in a sense, it is the only one of its kind. For centuries, our sun was known as Sol, latin for sun and the Roman equivalent of the Greek sun ...

The SOAR Telescope, located on Cerro Pachón in Chile, has received a major upgrade with the installation of the SOAR Telescope Echelle Spectrograph (STELES). The long-awaited instrument achieved first ...

Mercury exhibits a magnitude of -0.8 in the evening sky, remaining visible for approximately 80 minutes post-sunset. Mercury's close proximity (20 arcminutes) to the star Mebsuta (Epsilon Geminorum) ...

The rare nova explosion—once it happens—will be so bright that you'll be able to spot it without a telescope. reading time 3 minutes Astronomers have been watching a small constellation in the night ...

A bizarre planet defies cosmic norms: scientists have confirmed a giant planet orbiting in reverse around one star in a close binary system—an arrangement previously thought impossible. Using advanced ...