World's largest digital camera observes cosmos, capturing detailed images of galaxies, asteroids, and stars changing ...

After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is retiring. The European Space Agency’s space-based observatory known as Gaia ...

A dramatic cosmic event is winding up to occur right in our backyard. Astronomers have spotted a pair of stars bound for collision, located just 150 light-years away.

That eliminates any main sequence stars, leaving a white dwarf as the only likely answer. But that's not the only thing that's orbiting the central star of ν Octantis.