Astronomers from Texas have witnessed the moment a star’s surface is torn apart by a supernova, becoming oblong in the ...

The beginning of winter is a great time to be taking up astronomy, with long dark nights and a multitude of bright stars on ...

China is one of the most scientifically advanced countries in the world. Proof of this is the machine they use as a neutrino detector. It has been dubbed JUNO and it certainly look ...

Researchers use spectropolarimetry to understand what shape supernovae take when matter explodes from the surface, but it has ...

Space scientists have marked the changing of the seasons with some striking cosmic wonders. NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

Life on the International Space Station continues with crews arriving and departing, and even some personal care items like ...

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory wanted to wave goodbye to autumn by releasing images of celestial spectacles.

"Why are we here?" is humanity's most fundamental and persistent question. Tracing the origins of the elements is a direct ...

What can an ancient supernova teach scientists about Earth and celestial objects? This is what a study recently published in ...

Some white dwarfs in rapid binary orbits are far hotter and larger than theory predicts. Researchers found that powerful tidal forces between them generate enough heat to inflate their sizes and ...