The universe doesn't come with an instruction manual—but if it did, University of Missouri Assistant Professor Charles ...

"When I first spotted this system with a very high total mass on our galactic doorstep, I was immediately excited." ...

Astronomer Charles Steinhardt said most stars we see "might have formed under different conditions than we previously ...

Galaxies may not be as simple as "young and blue" or "old and red." A new idea from astrophysicist Charles Steinhardt proposes a third type: red star-forming galaxies that break the mold. These galaxi ...

Black holes are fundamental to the structure of galaxies and critical in our understanding of gravity, space, and time. A ...

Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick A white dwarf star is basically the corpse of a low-mass star that lost its outer layers. That can happen when a star runs out its fuel supply needed to ...

MORE: 3.5 billion-year-old crater created by meteorite impact found in Australia, scientists say Barnard's Star, a low-mass red dwarf, was discovered in 1916. Since then, astronomers have ...

Star Entertainment's balance sheet is in a precarious condition.

Though these planets are not expected to support life because of their closeness to Barnard's Star, they should be taken into ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...