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 ...

Previously described as playing astronomical "spot the difference," Kilonova Seekers asks the public to compare the latest ...

A cataclysmic variable star isn’t technically a single object. Instead, it’s a compact binary system composed of a white ...

Exploding stars V462 Lupi and V572 Velorum are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere. One has been spotted from the United States.

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

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

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

The Owl Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula — a type of object that yields glimpses of stellar death in slow motion.

It was kind of like seeing a pregnant octogenarian in a nursing home.” That is what astronomers employed to explain the astonishing discovery made using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a disk ...

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