One of the best places to study stars is inside "open clusters," which are groups of stars that formed together from the same material and are bound together through gravity. Subscribe to our ...

Astronomers using the Swiss 1.2-metre Euler telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile have found a new type of variable star. The discovery was based on the detection of very tiny changes in ...

Arguably, a hobby’s greatest benefit is derived from its rewards. I’ve been an avid backyard astronomer for 60 years. I still recall the night in 1963 when my high school friend Ray Gerbi showed me ...

Occasionally, the calendar aligns so that I get to complain about daylight saving time in this column on the same weekend it goes into effect. I need to take the chance to do that whenever I can. Just ...

A new ancient star type and a bunch of erupting protostars were discovered by astronomers monitoring around a billion Milky Way stars over 10 years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Rarest Stars in the Universe: Stars come in many forms, but some types are so rare that only a handful exist in our galaxy. For example, O-type stars account for just 0.00003% of the stars near the ...

One of the best places to study stars is inside “open clusters”, which are groups of stars that formed together from the same material and are bound together through gravity. Open clusters act as ...