Trundling along the ecliptic plane in Virgo, our satellite hangs near the bright star Spica in the evening sky.

Learn about new observations that reveal an exoplanet is destroying itself by cuddling up to its host star, in an ...

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

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

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

The discovery itself is simple and fundamental, but the applications stretch far and wide into astrophysics and quantum ...

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

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

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

(CN) — While all stars go out in a bang, some go out with two. For the first time, astronomers have recorded visual evidence ...

Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...

Citizen scientists working with the Kilonova Project made their first confirmed discovery of a rare exploding star, enabling ...