For example, the Sun has a magnitude of -26.7 which is, really, pretty luminous as most other objects outside our planet Earth. Comparing this, more distant stars might have magnitudes larger than 30, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) picture of the month for February 2025 is showing off the power of planet formation.

One photographer put the age of starlight into perspective with stunning projections on some of Earth's oldest rock ...

HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

A research team may have discovered a star with an exoplanet that is so fast that both will leave the Milky Way.

Using clever light-detecting techniques, ExTrA searches red dwarf stars for planets that might support life. By studying tiny ...

Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet has been uniquely discovered by Gaia's ability to ...