Life could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...

A new set of predictions for the so-called "Blaze Star," T Corona Borealis suggests the star might go nova on either March 27 ...

Located in the Corona Borealis constellation, T CrB is a binary system made up of a white dwarf (the remains of a dead star with a mass comparable to that of the Sun squeezed into an Earth-sized ...

Astronomers have used the remains of an ancient, dead star to ... focused on a system known as GRO J1655–40, a binary pair consisting of a black hole and a companion star. Today, the black ...

17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar ... Barnard's Star, the second-nearest star system to ...

Our solar system ... one orbit around their star in about 10, 13, 23, 32, 47, and 118 days (period ratios of 1.3, 1.7, 1.4, 1.5, and 2.5, respectively). In our solar system, Mercury, Venus ...

A giant wave of undulating gas and dust appears, per new research, to have engulfed our Solar System millions of years ago. Now, University of Vienna doctoral student Efrem Maconi thinks that our ...

Now, astronomers have zeroed in on the surprising origin of the unusual radio pulses: a dead star ... long radio bursts from this binary star system are just the beginning, astronomers say.

A frequent guest on late night shows in the 1970s and 1980s, Schultz was a pioneer among a crop of comedians that embraced ...