This celestial saga began almost 20 years ago. In 2008, astronomers detected an unexplained bright object located 25 light-years from Earth in the Piscis Austrinus constellation. Experts designated it ...

The nearby star system Fomalhaut — of special interest for its unusual exoplanet and dusty debris disk — has been discovered to be not just a double star, as astronomers had thought, but one of the ...

Now you see it, now you don’t. What astronomers thought was a planet beyond our solar system has now seemingly vanished from sight. Though this happens in science fiction, such as Superman’s home ...

This artist’s concept shows the violent collision of two massive objects in orbit around the star Fomalhaut. This artist’s concept shows the violent collision of two massive objects in orbit around ...

Hubble captured the violent collision of two massive objects around the star Fomalhaut. This extraordinary event is unlike anything in our own present-day solar system. The video shows the sequence of ...

Fomalhaut (Alpha Piscis Austrini), a magnitude 1.2 star, is visible in the southern sky after 8:30 PM local daylight time, reaching its highest point around midnight. Located 25 light-years from Earth ...

This artist’s concept shows the sequence of events leading up to the creation of dust cloud cs2 around the star Fomalhaut. In Panel 1, the star Fomalhaut appears in the top left corner. Two white dots ...