What did you get fot X-mas? Scientists may have been gifted with a solution to the mystery of juMBOs, strange celestial ...

Their conclusions are based on new simulations of some 1500 stars in the Orion Trapezium star cluster some 1300 light years away in Orion. They simulated 2522 planets that orbited 500 stars within ...

There are countless fixed stars in the firmament, but Sei Shonagon (c.966-c.1025) named only the Pleiades star cluster and ...

A team of researchers led by Richard Parker of the University of Sheffield, alongside undergraduate Jessica Diamond, ...

A surprising Christmas gift has been received by the scientists this year in the form of a potential solution to the mystery ...

More information: K. L. Luhman et al, JWST/NIRSpec Observations of Brown Dwarfs in the Orion Nebula Cluster, arXiv (2024).

For tribes in the Whanganui region, the new year is heralded by the rising of the star Rigel, in the Orion cluster. In Maori, this star is called Puanga. It's a period of celebration and ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to Northern Hemisphere mid-northern ...