The Very Large Telescope's SPHERE instrument captured unprecedented images of 51 dusty rings shaping young planetary systems.

Astronomers have captured images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their eruption and in unprecedented ...

A study of 91 pairs of stars finds that about 8%, or one in 12, swallowed up a planet at some point in their lives. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

“Observing the Galaxy is like standing in the middle of a brightly lit city at night. If you look toward the outskirts, the ...

Dusty stars close to the Milky Way’s black hole stay stable for years. New infrared data shows they survive gravity and ...

What can star variability—changes in a star's brightness over time—teach astronomers about exoplanet habitability? This is ...

“The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has not only the capability to destroy stars but it can also ...

New research offers the most precise measurements yet of pulsating Cepheid stars, which may hold clues about the immense size and scale of our universe. Cepheids are a type of variable star that ...

On Nov. 25, engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center successfully joined the two main segments of the Nancy Grace ...

Based on observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope, a team of Italian astronomers reports [1] that the stellar cluster Messier 12 must have lost to our Milky Way galaxy close to one million ...

Nearly 4.5 million years ago, two large, hot stars brushed tantalizingly close to Earth's sun. They left behind a trace in ...

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts ...