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

Astronomers have spotted another never-before-seen "nova" blaze to life in the night sky. This may be the first time that ...

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

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

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

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 ...