In an extraordinary celestial coincidence, two "new stars" —scientifically known as novae —are currently visible to the naked ...

Citizen scientists using the Kilonova Seekers platform spotted a stellar flash 2,500 times brighter than before, allowing ...

Planetary nebulae have nothing to do with planets. They simply appeared kinda like planets in telescopes long ago, their ...

The vocalisation of a dwarf minke whale sounds so strange and resonant it has been likened to a Star Wars lightsaber.

What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...