The planet formed 50 million years after the dinosaurs died, making it incredibly young in cosmic terms.

The nova eruptions come about when a white dwarf steals too much matter from a close red giant companion.

"With ALMA, we can now see the atmosphere of a dying star with a level of clarity in a similar way to what we do for the sun.

A Hidden Tatooine-like world has been found. The discovery sheds new light on how planets form and survive in extreme ...

Compelling evidence that the structure of matter surrounding supermassive black holes has changed over cosmic time has been ...

Astronomers have produced the first continuous, two-dimensional maps of the outer edge of the sun's atmosphere, a shifting, ...

For the first time, astronomers have captured the brilliance of a superluminous supernova via gravitational lensing.

The exoplanet, discovered by Northwestern University astronomers, orbits two suns exactly like Luke Skywalker's fictional ...

“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is ...

Astrophysicists have achieved an eye-opening leap in understanding stellar death, capturing unprecedented, detailed images of ...

Burst from M-dwarf star could be powerful enough to strip the atmosphere of any planets that orbit it, with implications for ...

Subjects including linguistics, international studies and human-centered design and engineering all halted taking ...