This list of commonly confused terms in astronomy will help you better understand the cosmos and the common phenomena we see in the sky.

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...

The most common stars in the universe are smaller and cooler ... "One of the most intriguing questions right now in exoplanet astronomy is: Can rocky planets orbiting M-dwarf stars maintain ...

The most common stars in the universe are smaller and cooler than our Sun, but they can be a lot more violent when it comes ...

By John Yoon and Hisako Ueno The ghosts of stars are up to their usual mischief ... but a Jupiter-bound mission helped them find common ground. Astronomers offered a new hypothesis for what ...

A new AI machine learning technique helped historians analyze 76,000 pages from astronomy textbooks spanning nearly two centuries.

Brown dwarfs are neither a star ... but not the most common basic form of hydrogen,” said Sam Whitebook, a graduate student in Caltech’s division of physics, mathematics and astronomy and ...

In 1181, a new star shone near the Cassiopeia constellation for six months before ... the typical static image of a fireworks display common to observations of supernovae, the researchers could ...

Brown dwarfs never acquire enough mass to sustain permanent fusion, leaving them larger than a planet but smaller and dimmer than a star. This failure to ignite may be a common outcome in the ...

Stars are born from the great reservoirs of cosmic material (mostly hydrogen and helium, the most common elements in ... has been one of the great tasks of astronomy during the last hundred ...