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 ...

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 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to determine the mass of white dwarf star LAWD 37. It is "56 percent the mass of our ...

James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...

Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so ...

Bamboos are grasses, so one would think that conventional grass killers would be up to the task. But even the best of them ...

The nova V462 Lupi was first discovered on June 12 by the Ohio State University-led All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae ...

The nova appeared in the constellation Lupus, which is positioned in the southern sky. While best seen from the Southern ...

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.

POP icon Sinitta and Britain’s Got Talent semi-finalist Myra DuBois will join the cast of this year’s Alhambra pantomime, the Telegraph & Argus announces today.