Learn about new observations that reveal an exoplanet is destroying itself by cuddling up to its host star, in an ...

By studying faint vibrations within stars, scientists using the Keck Planet Finder have discovered internal features that ...

W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of star system HR 8799 have been time-lapsed. The system hosts four planets that are more ...

Hawaii’s significant contribution to science, particularly those discoveries made through telescope installations on two ...

A cataclysmic variable star was found as part of a project using two telescopes from opposite sides of the world.

An artist’s concept of the famous Wolf-Rayet 104 “pinwheel star,” previously nicknamed the “Death Star.” W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko/W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko ...

The star Polaris marks the North Celestial Pole in our sky, around which all other objects in the heavens appear to rotate.

Stock image of the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. This wasn't the only surprising development from the new analysis of HD 219134—as the team also found that the star is more ...

The star is being nicknamed "Janus" after the two-faced Roman god of transition. It's more than 1,300 light years away from Earth and rotates on its axis every 15 minutes. Report a correction or typo ...

FREDERICKSBURG — Hill Country Astronomers will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 7, in the Fellowship Hall of Zion Lutheran Church, 415 W. Austin St., Fredericksburg.

From this star, skim 6.5° farther east to 5th-magnitude 6 Comae Berenices. Ceres sits less than 1.5° north of this star, making its way slowly west over the first half of the month, then ...

A low-mass star races through the Milky Way at over a million miles per hour, a journey that began with either the supernova explosion of a vampire star or an encounter with black holes.