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 ...

In his new book '52 Assignments: Night Photography', award-winning astrophotographer Josh Dury invites you to raise your lens ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

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

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

The clingy planet orbits so close to its star, it triggers powerful explosions of radiation that eat away at its atmosphere.

Scientists show that the frequency of a set of words seems to have increased in published study abstracts since ChatGPT was ...

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

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

An explosion captured in a new image could help astronomers to better understand the "standard candles" at the center of a ...