Sixty-three light-years from Earth, in the small, faint constellation known as Pictor (which is Latin for "painter"), there ...

Astronomers have solved a 170-year-old planetary mystery in a nearby two-star system, discovering that a mysterious wobble ...

A vast trail of dark dust surrounding Beta Pictoris, a young star 63 light-years from Earth, may be the remains of a violent collision between planetary bodies. New observations from the Hubble Space ...

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A star near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy originated outside the galaxy according to a new study published in Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B. This is ...

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This Christmas, astronomers are highlighting a spectacular region of space that looks remarkably like a glowing holiday tree. Known as NGC 2264, this distant star-forming region sits about 2,700 light ...

Even if they were dozens of light-years away, two colliding neutron stars could create a powerful enough explosion to wipe out life on Earth. At least, that’s according to a recent paper published in ...