Astronomers have captured images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their eruption and in unprecedented ...

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.

Nearly 4.5 million years ago, two large, hot stars brushed tantalizingly close to Earth's sun. They left behind a trace in ...

The satellite is operated and run by Blue Skies Space, a U.K.-space science data company and was launched aboard SpaceX’s ...

SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

For the first time, astronomers have captured clear, detailed images of two stars explosions just days after their eruption.

New research offers the most precise measurements yet of pulsating Cepheid stars, which may hold clues about the immense size and scale of our universe. Cepheids are a type of variable star that ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion-powered suns, but enormous “supermassive dark stars” powered by dark ...

Based on observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope, a team of Italian astronomers reports [1] that the stellar cluster Messier 12 must have lost to our Milky Way galaxy close to one million ...

Matters of the heart can be puzzling and mysterious — so too with unusual astronomical objects called heartbeat stars. Heartbeat stars, discovered in large numbers by NASA’s Kepler space telescope, ...

Fame can take as many years off a musician's life as occasionally smoking cigarettes, a new study has found, after comparing ...