One of Griaule’s most famous (and controversial) claims was our ostensible knowledge of Sirius B, the companion star to Sirius. Invisible to the naked eye, Griaule found oral traditions describing ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was recently used to capture direct images of four Saturn-like exoplanets in a solar system 130 light-years away.

But it will actually be painful to look at because, unlike the full moon that is this gorgeous disk in the sky, Betelgeuse is ...

Five 'mass extinctions' have decimated our planet since it was formed - now scientists claim the answers to two could be written in the stars.

For a decade, a radio signal has puzzled astronomers. Every two hours, a pulse from the constellation Ursa Major travels ...