During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and color to show ...

When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's ...

The Sun, our nearest celestial neighbor, is undeniably a star, not a planet, as centuries of astronomical observations have ...

For the first time ever, astronomers have spotted a powerful coronal flare (cme) from a star other than the Sun.

Astronomers using the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton space observatory and the LOFAR telescope have definitively spotted ...

Astronomers first documented a CME in 1859, in conjunction with the widespread energy grid disruptions that later became ...

Astronomers say they spotted signs of a giant explosion releasing from a star beyond our solar system, one powerful enough to destroy a planet’s atmosphere.

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called "red giant" phase are even more destructive to their orbiting planets than ...

In astrology, planets aren’t just celestial bodies; they’re seen as energetic forces that symbolize different aspects of the ...

Meet HD 98800, a nearby quadruple‑star system in the constellation Crater. It sits about 150 light‑years away and is 10 million years old.