Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, may not be alone. And its potential companion may be responsible for one of the star’s enduring mysteries.

Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that surrounds its young host star. Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT ...

Citrus greening is a disease with no known cure that has infected nearly every citrus grove. It first cropped up 20 years ago ...

The founder of Sahabat Langit Utara, a community organisation, said the Orang Asli have their own names for constellations and star patterns that are woven into their local folklore and stories.

Astronomers have discovered a vast and expanding bubble of gas and dust surrounding a red supergiant star—the largest ...

A recent study led by Dilda Berdikhan, a Ph.D. student from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese ...

Even with eclipsing binaries, measuring the properties of stars is no easy task. Stars are deformed as they rotate and pull ...

Monty Python icon Eric Idle has said that he’d be “proud to be thrown out” of Donald Trump ’s United States as he’d be in “very select company”. The comedian and actor, 83, best ...

There's so much more to see than the famous Messier Catalog. Here's a list of gorgeous NGC star clusters to observe on the ...

Monty Python icon Eric Idle has said that he’d be “proud to be thrown out” of Donald Trump ’s United States as he’d be in “very select company”.