CW Leonis, a massive red giant star, is in the final throes of its life, undergoing a violent transformation as it nears the ...

Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

Enjoy a close conjunction of the solar system’s smallest and largest planet just days before the Full Strawberry Moon this ...

In about 4.5 billion years, the Sun will enter its red giant phase, swallowing Mercury and Venus and rendering Earth ...

the planetary nebula luminosity function (PNLF), the globular cluster luminosity function (GCLF), the tip of the red giant branch (TRGB), and the surface brightness fluctuation (SBF) method. The ...

Europa may host microbial life when the sun transforms into a red giant s Solar and Jupiter heat may melt Europa's ice and ...

Scientists have discovered a few thousand planetary nebulas in the Milky Way. Those include the Ring Nebula, aka NGC 6720 and ...

Astronomers using ALMA have uncovered how gas and dust in planet-forming disks evolve separately an insight that reshapes our ...

Scientists have discovered a giant planet orbiting a tiny red dwarf star, something they believed wasn t even possible. The ...

Astronomers found a giant planet orbiting one of the smallest stars ever known to host one, challenging everything we thought ...

The host star, TOI-6894, is a red dwarf with only 20% the mass of the Sun, typical of the most common stars in our galaxy.

The Eagle Nebula (M16) is a grand star-forming area. Its pillars of dust and gas are nurseries for new stars, and thus it is a center of celestial activity. The Carina Nebula (NGC 3372 ...