As our cosmic neighbor—the nearest single-star system to our sun—it’s been a tempting place to look. In 1963, Dutch scientist Peter van de Kamp claimed to have discovered the first exoplanet ...

At 5.97 light-years from Earth, it is the fourth-closest star to our solar system, after the three interconnected stars of ...

the second-closest single star system to Earth. But a combination of telescopes all over the world confirmed the presence of four small exoplanets, according to a study published last week in The ...

Both nebulas are the leftover remnants from the last phase of a medium star like our sun. Miguel Claro is a professional photographer, author and science communicator based in Lisbon, Portugal ...

A newly discovered star system in the heart of the Milky Way is moving at unprecedented speeds. Scientists believe this ...

The binary star system, called T Corona Borealis (TCrB), dramatically brightens approximately every 80 years and was last observed doing so in 1946, making it a once-in-a-lifetime event.

T CrB is a symbiotic binary, a vampire system in which a white dwarf is siphoning material from a red giant star. A white dwarf is the dense, compact core remnant of a once sun-like star ...

the next solar system it was building inside the crowd-funded sci-fi RPG Star Citizen. After years of development, the Pyro system is now available for any backer to jump into, offering fresh ...