Dyson spheres and rings have always held a special fascination for me. The concept is simple: build a great big structure ...

A study of 56,000 Sun-like stars has revealed that stars like ours may experience powerful "superflares" about once per ...

New observations show that newly formed planets close to a star help shepherd dust and gas to create more planets farther out ...

NASA and ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been observing the outer planets through a program called OPAL (Outer Planet ...

New radio astronomy observations of a planetary system in the process of forming show that once the first planets form close to the central star, these planets can help shepherd the material to form ...

Enceladus' ice plumes might be the reason why a dark spot on the moon is disappearing. But what is the spot in the first ...

Over the last ten years, OPAL has observed Uranus' northern hemisphere, which has faced the inner solar system for the ...

FARGO — Rainbows are caused by the reflection and refraction of sunlight inside liquid water droplets. Rainbows always appear ...

A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in order to understand ...

Indian astronomers have made an exciting discovery in the GG Tau A, a triple star system. Located approximately 489 ...

The GG Tau A system, which is part of a triple-star setup, is estimated to be between 1 and 5 million years old.

A team of Indian astronomers has made a fascinating discovery that could change how we think about how planets are born. The team, led by Liton Majum ...