Being extremely short or unusually tall comes with unique challenges, from navigating daily life to coping with potential medical issues. For most people, height stabilizes in adulthood, but Adam ...

"The discovery provides a unique cosmic laboratory for studying these mysterious objects." A rare quadruple star system that is the first of its kind to be discovered by astronomers could help better ...

Two of the objects in the arrangement are cold brown dwarfs, which will serve as a benchmark for others throughout the Milky Way. By Katrina Miller Zenghua Zhang, an astronomer at Nanjing University ...

In a breakthrough study published in Nature Astronomy, researchers have discovered a new origin for some of the fastest stars ever observed: hypervelocity white dwarfs—compact stellar remnants ...