International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one ...

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Using the TUBITAK National Observatory and ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers from the Istanbul University in Turkey and ...

Star PDS 70 is a youngster at 5 million years old, which researchers say is considered a newborn compared to Earth's 4.6-billion-year-old sun.

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The fact that this carbon dust can potentially survive for centuries could change how we think about the building blocks of ...

A groundbreaking global study, analyzing DNA from brittle stars collected over decades, reveals surprising connectivity in ...

This large, bright star is believed to be about 280,000 times brighter than the Sun, 16 times more massive and 1.41 times larger. It is also in the last stage of its life.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will make the study of stars and galaxies more like the big data-sorting exercises of contemporary genetics and particle physics.

Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to reveal 44 stars in a galaxy so far away, its light dates to when the universe was half its age.