As the nights get shorter and the evenings get cool, one brilliant star in the southern sky softly signals the beginning of autumn. It is Fomalhaut, a very bright and easily seen star in the evening ...

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The bright star Fomalhaut stands prominently in the south late tonight, rising around 8:30 P.M. local daylight time. At magnitude 1.2, it outshines all other stars in this region. Fomalhaut is also ...

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 ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe the first asteroid belt seen outside of our solar system and unveiled some cosmic surprises along the way. The space observatory focused on ...

The unbalanced orbit of a so-called "zombie planet" in a dusty star system has astronomers struggling to explain the exoplanet's behavior. New observations of the planet Fomalhaut b by the Hubble ...

The Fomalhaut system is nearby in astronomical terms, and it's also one of the brightest stars in the night sky. That means astronomers have studied it intensely over the years. Now that we have the ...