Exoplanet exploration has taken off in recent years, with over 5,500 being discovered so far. Some have even been in the habitable zones of their stars. Imaging one such potentially habitable ...

The telescope peered into a single “toe bean” of the nebula, uncovering clusters of gas, dust and young stars.

However, the more powerful the laser brought to bear on the sodium atoms, the more stable the calibration “star.” So ESO has bumped the power level up to 63 watts — almost a threefold ...

The farthest star ever detected, located behind what NASA describes as "a wrinkle in space-time," is more than twice as hot as the sun and about a million times more luminous.

The newly announced Landolt NASA Space Mission will launch a bread box-size "artificial star" satellite that will mimic stars by shining lasers directly at ground-based telescopes. This will ...

“It invites scientists to consider a wider range of star and planet scenarios regarding both formation and evolution,” he says. Journal reference: Nature DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09006-x ...

The first spacecraft to explore the space beyond Earth orbit was Pioneer 4 in 1959. Twenty-five years later, ... An orbit that is stable around its host star over cosmic timescales.