Astronomers directly imaged a massive young planet orbiting two tightly bound stars at solar-system-like distances.

Do all stars exist in galaxies, or do some exist in intergalactic space?Thomas GriffilthAtlantic City, New Jersey Nearly all ...

By Michael AllenFor the first time, scientists have used NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer) to study a white ...

Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the night sky and a familiar landmark in the constellation Orion. It has also ...

NASA's IXPE instrument has been used to observe a binary white dwarf system for nearly a week. The spacecraft was able to ...

Here are six of the most stunning newborn stars and galaxies images shot by NASA James Webb Space Telescope, depicting the ...

Scientists reveal how two unstable nuclei trigger neutron star explosions and power intense X-ray bursts across the universe.

The New Year of 2026 began at the stroke of midnight today, and four minutes later the brightest star in the sky, Sirius in ...

Astronomers analyzed AT 2024wpp, the brightest LFBOT observed, confirming a black hole shredded a companion star, producing high-energy blue, ultraviolet, X-ray, and radio emissions.

A team of astronomers believe they've witnessed, for the first time, a star exploding in a mythical "superkilonova." ...

Roughly 1,000 light-years away from Earth, a gigantic disk of gas and dust is swirling around a young star and giving rise to ...

Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the ...