Treats are in store for stargazers at both ends of the short summer nights this June. Evenings belong to Saturn, a beacon in the southwest. Not sure which object is the ringed planet? Look the ...

These spots are even larger than the entire surface of our sun — which is why XX Tri has been dubbed "the most spotted star in the sky," Kővári said. The study was also the first to show how ...

As a hypergiant star, UY Scuti's immense size is almost incomprehensible, with a radius about 1,700 times larger than that of our Sun. This means if UY Scuti were placed at the center of our solar ...

Data from the Gaia spacecraft shows that even unassuming stars can host monumental companions like massive planets.

The research, now published in peer-reviewed magazine, Journal Science, said that LHS 3154 b, with a mass at least 13 times that of Earth, orbits a star only 11% as massive as our sun, challenging ...

Wolf-Rayet stars are supernovae in the making. The stars are generally larger than the Sun, but are rapidly losing mass as they reach the ends of their lives. When the stars do eventually die ...

As soon as the Sun goes down one really bright star is ... you’ll also see its four giant moons Galileo (which is bigger even than the planet Mercury) alongside Europa, Callisto and Io.

Weighing in at 40 billion times the size of our Sun ... times larger than expected from indirect measurements, such as the stellar mass or the velocity dispersion of the stars” said Roberto ...

On average, a neutron star has 1.4 times the density of the Sun. However, the Sun is more than a million kilometres wide. The typical neutron star, on the other hand, is smaller than the average city.