Chi Cygni is a Mira-type variable star with some of the most extreme variations in brightness among any variable stars in the sky.

3C 147 is not the first object ever identified as a quasar, but it is sort of one of the first two objects ever called a quasar.

Astronomers may not have found an exoplanet orbiting the star HD 191089, but they found the next best thing.

The WLM Galaxy is located at the edge of the Local Group where it is relatively unaffected by everything happening around the Milky Way and the Androm...

Jets of gas that are several light years long are emerging from the blue supergiant MWC 137, and no one knows why.

Most globular clusters are among the first stars to form in the universe, but the globular cluster NGC 6352 seems abnormally young in comparison.

It took 10 years of observations for astronomers to determine that the star HD 154345 had a Jupiter-like exoplanet orbiting it.

While the gamma ray burst GRB 090926A itself might be interesting to some astronomers (particularly desperate gamma ray astronomers), the interstellar...

IC 10 is a nearby starburst, a type of galaxy that is forming stars at a very high rate (for its size) that should not be confused with the fruit flav...

The cluster of galaxies Abell S1063 was only reported as a discovery in the 1980s, but it has attracted a lof of attention because of how it gravitati...