The Winston Red Diamond, one of the rarest gems in the world, is a stunning 2.33-carat red diamond displayed at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

Laid out like an orchestra in a quiet gallery room, 40 colorful gems have one of the planet’s most distinguished conductors: a red diamond, 2.33 of the rarest carats in the world, shining like a ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...

New findings from the ALMA telescope have revealed that planets are born in much smaller protoplanetary disks than ...

So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

T CrB is located in the constellation of Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown, which is currently visible in the night sky ...

A group of stellar Sherlocks have solved the mystery of red transient objects that appear and fade in the sky, linking them to the total explosive death of stars.

A puzzling new type of radio signal – lasting seconds to minutes – has been linked to a binary star system featuring a white ...

When you're a little person opportunities are few and far between. 'I was born to play Dopey the dwarf. It's my dream role but Disney never gave me a chance. 'There were seven great parts right ...

These images show the spacecraft taking on a deep red hue as the sunlight is refracted through the Earth’s atmosphere, resulting in a shadow cast on the lunar surface. “Firefly’s Blue Ghost ...

This was the first total lunar eclipse since 2022, and photographers — both amateur and professional — were not going to let the rare opportunity to capture the spectacle pass ...

That's because dwarf galaxies this small should have been destroyed in the hotter and denser conditions of the early universe. Yet somehow, this tiny galaxy survived without being fried.