Astronomers had long been suspecting that some stars do meet their end of life with a dual detonation and new images prove ...

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 ...

Citizen scientists have spotted the moment a binary star system exploded after playing “spot the difference” with images from ...

MUSE allows astronomers to map the distribution of different chemical elements, displayed here in different colours. Calcium ...

A new result from the molecular gas survey in the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy M83 using the Atacama Large ...

A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that ...

A new gas giant world discovered by citizen scientists using data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS is cool, ...

A rare Jupiter-sized planet AT2021uey b was found 3,200 light-years away using microlensing, a method based on Einstein's ...

This is the first time an object in its class has been detected in X-rays. The discovery could lead to a better understanding ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered deep into one of the Milky Way's most radiation-intense ...