2MASS J2126 was believed to be a free-floating planet. A planet without a home star. But a team of astronomers... Read More
Stars and cloudy storms aren’t something you usually see in an article. Yet, here we are. Astronomers took a peek... Read More
Proxima Centauri wasn’t always the closest star to our Sun. 70,000 years ago, another star grazed the outer reaches of our solar system. Scholz’s star sits 20 light years away today, but was a lot closer. Read More
The European Space Agency’s Planck telescope has new information about the universe’s first stars. Scientists have thought star formation began... Read More
About 90 light-years from Earth is a star with quite a bit of company. Astronomers have discovered Pluto-size objects swarming... Read More
The most recent glimpses into the cosmos looked at the dusty debris disks around other stars. Most likely created by... Read More