"We need to understand for how long HW2 can keep growing." Astronomers have captured the clearest view to date of a massive young star gulping down swirling gas, offering a rare glimpse into how these ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Artist's illustration of ammonia gas falling into the accretion disk that's feeding the massive ...

Will Betelbuddy make it into the next Beetlejuice film? Stay tuned to find out. Every superhero — or antihero — needs a sidekick. And it turns out that Beetlejuice Betelgeuse does indeed have one! The ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a giant protostar blasting jets, seen diagonally here, on the edge of the Milky Way. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Yu Cheng / Joseph DePasquale In a ...

Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet—between three and ten times the size of Jupiter—hiding in the swirling disk of gas and dust surrounding a young star. Earlier observations of this star, ...

How did this red dwarf star 240 light-years away end up with a gas giant planet? Credit: University of Warwick / Mark Garlick illustration Astronomers have discovered a world outside the solar system ...

Artist's concept of a red giant star and white dwarf orbiting one another. When the red giant moves behind the white dwarf, a nova explosion on the white dwarf ignites. (Photo Credit: NASA Goddard ...

A distant red giant star is rippling with seismic vibrations, and for the first time, a NASA spacecraft has translated those ...

Astronomers have announced that the James Webb Space Telescope has successfully captured its first direct images of carbon ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed - a really big planet orbiting a really small star. The discovery defies current understanding of how ...