Astronomers have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to find strong evidence for a planet orbiting a star in the triple system closest to our own sun. At just 4 light-years away from Earth, the ...

An astronomer and a photographer captured the first photograph of star 175 years ago on July 17, 1850. This image of Vega in the sky over Harvard is the first known photograph of a star other than our ...

An artist's rendering of T Coronae Borealis, also known as T CrB, a recurrent nova in the constellation Corona Borealis. It is a binary system composed of a red giant star and a white dwarf star, ...

Astronomers have observed what they believe to be a never-before-seen companion star orbiting Betelgeuse, a pulsating red supergiant star in the shoulder of the Orion constellation. One of the best ...

Astronomers suspect that the flare is a a burst of radiation that occurs when a black hole consumes a hapless star, ripping it apart and swallowing it. Astronomers are continuing to monitor the black ...