The half-sheet illustration was revealed weeks before the premiere of Star Wars in 1977. (The movie was later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope.) Heritage Auctions The galactic painting that ...

The center of our galaxy is an extreme place. Surrounding the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, stars are packed ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Skywatchers looking east a couple of hours after dark this ...

Many researchers have spent decades attempting to decode biblical descriptions and link them to verifiable historical events. One such description is that of the Star of Bethlehem—a bright ...

It’s “common knowledge”—and the scare quotes should be a warning—that the sun is an average star. But it’s not, and in fact it’s not even close: The sun is in the top 90th percentile of stars by mass.

Astronomers recently watched a massive star die, but fail to explode as a supernova. Instead, it collapsed directly into a black hole, slowly expelling its turbulent outer layers in the process. This ...

Three thousand five hundred and sixty-tree carats, a measurement of weight and in a certain way a measurement of the size of gemstones, translates to 1.57 pounds, which is just one of the several ...