Figuring out the ages of stars is fundamental to understanding many areas of astronomy—yet, it remains a challenge since ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

A new result from the molecular gas survey in the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy M83 using the Atacama Large ...

A new gas giant world discovered by citizen scientists using data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS is cool, ...

MUSE allows astronomers to map the distribution of different chemical elements, displayed here in different colours. Calcium ...

In his new book '52 Assignments: Night Photography', award-winning astrophotographer Josh Dury invites you to raise your lens ...

Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland could lose nearly $39 million through NIH cuts, according to the Chronicle of ...

A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that ...

Astronomers had long been suspecting that some stars do meet their end of life with a dual detonation and new images prove ...

According to a fairly new theory, white dwarfs can explode twice in a row in certain circumstances. For the first time, we ...

According to Live Scence, the planet’s shadow was first spotted in 2021 in data taken by the European Space Agency’s Gaia ...

Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...