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.

BlueMUSE will provide detailed observations within the Milky Way and our galactic neighbourhood, helping study targets as ...

Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark ...

A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to ...

Astronomers have discovered the first radio signals from a unique category of dying stars, called Type Ibn supernovae, and ...

Astronomers have discovered how "forever young" stars stay blue and bright despite being almost as old as the universe.

New simulations performed on a NASA supercomputer are providing scientists with the most comprehensive look yet into the ...

Astronomers have conducted the largest observational study of runaway stars, along with rotation and binarity in the Milky ...

In 2013, a sea star wasting syndrome decimated populations of Pisaster along the west coast of North America and along the Monterey Peninsula in California, where this study was conducted. The orange ...

A new study has found that the devastating sea star wasting disease is caused by a strain of bacteria from Vibrio pectenicida, which turns the marine creatures into goo. When you purchase through ...

Astronomy is the oldest science, and the sky is among our first laboratories. Long before the written word, people erected stone circles to frame the first dawn rays of the summer solstice, etched ...