"This tangible evidence of a double detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers ...

Astronomers peering into the Large Magellanic Cloud have caught a white-dwarf crime scene in the act of giving up its secrets ...

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme. At least, that's what astronomers found when ...

Figuring out the ages of stars is fundamental to understanding many areas of astronomy—yet, it remains a challenge since ...

This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5. These are the expanding ...

Astronomers uncover how massive stars form by tracking interstellar ammonia. Using the U.S. National Science Foundation ...

European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope took photos a rare supernova roughly 300 years after it happened ...

The research draws on two existing approaches to better estimate stars’ ages.

In a stellar nursery 460 light-years away, astronomers sharpened old ALMA data and spotted crisp rings and spirals swirling ...

Studies of 15 M-type stars have revealed new insights into the potential presence of exoplanets. A new study led by ...

Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to light with the formation of the first stars and galaxies is a ...

We know black hole mergers occur because we can detect the resulting gravitational waves. But when trying to piece together ...