When, in 2023, Star Wars: Ahsoka made it clear that much of the plot would hinge on finding missing pieces to the astronomical map, Star Wars fans heaved a collective deep sigh. Here we go again. In ...

Starfield is all about taking into the skies above and exploring the deepest corners of the galaxy, including its more than 1000 explorable planets. To do that, though, you’ll need to make use of the ...

The newfound exoplanet HIP 99770 b (circled), is seen circling its host star in these images by Japan's Subaru Telescope. Data from Europe’s star-mapping Gaia spacecraft revealed the likely presence ...

Once you know how to use a star map, finding your way around the night sky is easy. Credit: Creators.com illustration I’ve been finding my way around the night sky with a star map for more than six ...

Early stages of star formation are now better understood, following an extensive millimeter-wave study of protostars, which are young stellar objects still deeply embedded in their parent molecular ...

For those who have ever been to Hoover Dam, it’s almost guaranteed they have seen Oskar J.W. Hansen’s Winged Figures, which has stood for nearly nine decades. As part of that monument is Hansen’s Star ...

The discovery has also revealed star coordinates, meaning Hipparchus was the first to use them for determining the positions of those stars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Astronomers are mapping more than 40 million stars in the sky, recording the brightness and location of many faint stars that will be cataloged accurately for the first time, researchers say. The ...

In 1984’s The Last Starfighter, Alex Rogan became a video game champion and savior of the galaxy when an arcade game called Starfighter opened a path to cosmic adventure. So many of us dream of ...

Astronomers have directly detected and imaged a gas giant orbiting another star by combining different techniques for hunting exoplanets. Researchers first looked at a catalog of star-mapping data ...