Astronomers have discovered that the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades star cluster have more stellar siblings than we thought  — ...

Astronomers have discovered that the iconic Pleiades cluster, long admired as the “Seven Sisters,” is only a small part of a ...

On a brisk, dark evening, the Pleiades twinkle like a small handful of stars scattered across the sky. To the human eye, this ...

Gaia’s full-sky survey generated a massive database tracking how asteroids reflect light as they rotate. These measurements, called light curves, reveal changes in brightness over time. When ...

Observations show the disk of our galaxy is not flat but warped and waving. Astronomers are still working out the reasons why ...

New analysis shows that the Pleiades cluster constitutes the core of a much larger structure of related stars that are ...

Whether an asteroid is spinning neatly on its axis or tumbling chaotically, and how fast it is doing so, has been shown to be dependent on how frequently it has experienced collisions. The findings, ...

New work from a research team including Carnegie's Luke Bouma demonstrates that the Pleiades star cluster—also known as the Seven ...