Astronomy

XO-5 is a yellow dwarf main-sequence star located in the Lynx constellation about 910 light-years from Earth. It is a gas giant exoplanet that revolves…

The term eclipse refers to the blocking of light from one astronomical object by the passage of another through it. It is synchronization of three…

HD 80606 b is a strange and hot Jupiter located 190 light-years away from the Sun in the constellation Ursa Major. It is a gas…

83 Leonis is a binary star system in the constellation Leo that is approximately 59 light-years away (the Lion). The system’s primary star is a…

16 Cygni Bb, also known as HD 186427 b, is an extrasolar planet located 69 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. It is a gas…

NASA’s Artemis program to return humans to the Moon may face another setback, and NASA Administrator Bill Nelson believes he knows who is to blame.…

Astronomers have discovered a massive cavity in space where the interstellar medium becomes nearly imperceptibly thin for roughly 500 light-years. Supernova events about 6-22 million…

Some galaxies should have a lot more activity than they do. In the very early cosmos, when making a lot of stars was the preferred…

Black holes are still an enigma in the universe. Every time we think we’ve figured them out, something new appears. According to new theoretical studies,…

Westerlund 1-75, also known as Wd 1-75, is a red supergiant (RSG) in the Westerlund 1 super star cluster. It has a radius of approximately…

Whether the brilliant lights flare over Earth or another planet, astronomers continue to be fascinated by auroral displays. The lights reveal information about the composition…

Exoplanets in orbit around red dwarf stars have been studied extensively in recent years in order to locate exoplanets. The effective surface temperatures of these…