Astronomers have uncovered the violent secret of V Sagittae, a white dwarf star consuming its companion in a spectacular ...

Astronomers have solved the mystery of a star that has baffled scientists for over a century, finding it is a cannibal white ...

The findings suggest Earth’s geological story was partly written in the stars – specifically, in the spiral arms of our home ...

Webb telescope captures a young giant star firing off an 8-light-year gas jet, and revealing how massive stars form.

One of the worlds in the TRAPPIST-1 system, a mere 40 light-years away, just might be clad in a life-supporting atmosphere.

A spacecraft the size of a small city could one day ferry generations of humans across the void to Alpha Centauri, our ...

The system, named UPM J1040−3551 AabBab, is located about 82 light-years from Earth. The two pairs—the brown dwarfs and the bright stars, identified as red dwarfs —are separated by 1,656 astronomical ...

A greedy white dwarf star not far from Earth is devouring its closest celestial companion at a rate never seen before, space ...

A new rectangular telescope design could finally spot Earth-like planets around nearby stars, bringing the search for alien ...

Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e may contain an atmosphere and liquid water, NASA scientists said. Research into the exoplanet is ...

Astronomers are researching an Earth-like exoplanet that could contain water, according to NASA. The exoplanet, named ...