The Griffith Observatory in California had a great view of the Mars-Moon occultation. See the Red Planet slip behind the moon ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured imagery of supernova 2018 GV from 2018-2019. It was seen in barred spiral galaxy NGC 2525 ...

European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope took photos a rare supernova roughly 300 years after it happened ...

"Honestly, it's been a little devastating," Kevin Hardegree-Ullman, a scientist at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at ...

Figuring out the ages of stars is fundamental to understanding many areas of astronomy—yet, it remains a challenge since ...

The 10-year survey is the primary mission of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop at the edge of Chile’s ...

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 found a remarkable pair of stars that may finally prove a long-debated theory. Described in the journal ...

According to a fairly new theory, white dwarfs can explode twice in a row in certain circumstances. For the first time, we ...

However, although photons of light existed since the first second after the Big Bang, they could not yet shine across the ...

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