Astronomers have spotted an object from outside our solar system bolting toward the Sun at around 150,000 mph (240,000 km/h).

"This tangible evidence of a double detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers ...

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

"The explosions of white dwarfs play a crucial role in astronomy," stated Priyam Das, a PhD student at the University of New South Wales Canberra and study leader. Das further described the findings ...

"Astronomers may have just discovered the third interstellar object passing through the Solar System!" the agency's ...

This is the first evidence for a white dwarf exploding not once, but twice. The discovery could shed new light on how some ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

The host star, HIP 67522, is slightly larger and cooler than our Sun. But unlike our middle-aged star, this one is just 17 ...

We have discovered two interstellar objects so far, ’Oumuamua and Comet 2I/Borisov. ’Oumuamua had no dust tail and a ...

The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...

Astronomers have discovered a new object that originated outside of our Solar System — only the third to be found.

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