Skywatcher Tunc Tezel captures the Virgo constellation and more in this view from Turkey.

(Phys.org) -- Here on Earth we are occasionally concerned about solar flares due to the impact they can have on our electrical systems. But our solar flares are puny when compared to so-called superflares that occur with other stars. A new research study by a team from Japan’s Kyoto University ...

Superflares could pack the punch of 10,000 solar flares.

(Phys.org) -- Using state of the art computer simulations, a team of astronomers from the University of Bonn in Germany have found the first evidence that the way in which stars form depends on their birth environment. The team, based at the University of Bonn in Germany, publish their results ...

You can sponsor NASA space shuttles Enteprise and Endeavour for their final museum homes.

A few hundred thousand billion free-floating life-bearing Earth-sized planets may exist in the space between stars in the Milky Way. So argues an international team of scientists led by Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, Director of the Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology at the University of Buckingham, UK. Their findings are published online ...

(Phys.org) -- A new image of Messier 55 from ESO's VISTA infrared survey telescope shows tens of thousands of stars crowded together like a swarm of bees. Besides being packed into a relatively small space, these stars are also among the oldest in the Universe. Astronomers study Messier 55 and ...

A new picture shows about 100,000 stars in a globular cluster called Messier 55.

The process to build a giant hot Jupiter may be incompatible with smaller worlds, scientists say.

A new study detected four white dwarf stars in the act of consuming rocky alien planets.