Is there anything more dramatic than an exploding star? More than just extraordinarily bright, energetic events that can ...

But most of the gold on Earth isn’t in our hands; it’s deep underground. During the planet’s formation, heavy elements like ...

If a massive star near Earth exploded into a supernova, the result wouldn’t just be beautiful — it would be catastrophic.

NASA's NICER telescope halts its mission after a key motor fails; engineers attempt to salvage eight years of space science.

Astronomers observed the fading light of supernova SN 2025kg, which followed the fast X-ray transient (FXT) named EP 250108a.

V Sagittae’s violent mass transfer hints at an imminent nova—and a future supernova visible from Earth. Binary star systems are fairly common in the universe, as are pairs where one star is a compact ...

Many space-lovers know the phrase "We are all made of star stuff." And it's true - our planet formed from the dust cloud left ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope confirmed the existence of a companion star orbiting Betelgeuse, ...

Betelgeuse confirmed to have a small companion star Discovery made using Hubble and Chandra telescopes Companion likely a ...

As the collapsed core of a massive star, a neutron star is a small but incredibly dense object, packing up to three times the ...

A couple months back, astronomers officially confirmed the existence of “Betelbuddy,” Betelgeuse’s long-suspected companion ...