Astronomers have finally traced a strange class of radio signals—long a cosmic mystery—to a binary star system made up of a ...

This image features a deep field view of the Cassiopeia constellation immersed in the glow of ionized hydrogen gas, where the ...

It’s ok, Darth Vader hasn’t got our humble planet in his sights! No this Death Star is a binary system where both stars are ...

Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 ...

A star called T Corona Borealis may "go nova" next week, making the star briefly visible to the naked eye. It last happened ...

A puzzling new type of radio signal – lasting seconds to minutes – has been linked to a binary star system featuring a white ...

The findings reveal unusual chemical signatures and offer new insights into the behavior of novas beyond the Milky Way.

When massive stars explode as supernovae, they can leave behind neutron stars. Other than black holes, these are the densest ...

Using the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), an international team of astronomers has observed a young Herbig ...

An artist’s concept of the famous Wolf-Rayet 104 “pinwheel star,” previously nicknamed the “Death Star.” New research ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was recently used to capture direct images of four Saturn-like exoplanets in a solar system 130 light-years away.

An international team of astrophysicists from China and Australia has for the first time determined how massive neutron stars ...