Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have conducted the most detailed simulation of the interior of stars and disproved a theory scientists have believed for 45 years: that stars switch their ...

In A Nutshell Scientists have identified 6,594 solar twins, stars nearly identical to our Sun, in the largest model-driven catalog of its kind ever assembled. Each star was assigned an estimated age, ...

In our current evening sky we have one of the earliest soap-operalike stories, with two independent plots becoming intertwined into one. Perhaps we could call it the celestial version of "All My ...

Explore the mystery of Tabby’s Star and the theory of alien megastructures causing its strange light patterns. About four years ago, one star gained notoriety when some astronomers suggested its weird ...

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Mercury reaches its stationary point in Virgo today at 4 P.M. EDT. It will now begin moving westward, or retrograde, while also reducing its elongation from the Sun. The solar system’s smallest planet ...

You know how we know there’s a giant peanut in the center of our galaxy? Because X marks the spot. That was a fun thing to write. It also has the advantage of being true. Our Milky Way is a spiral ...