Astronomers have spotted an object from outside our solar system bolting toward the Sun at around 150,000 mph (240,000 km/h).

"This tangible evidence of a double detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers ...

For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but ...

MUSE allows astronomers to map the distribution of different chemical elements, displayed here in different colours. Calcium ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

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 ...

The host star, HIP 67522, is slightly larger and cooler than our Sun. But unlike our middle-aged star, this one is just 17 ...

A powerful and mysterious blast of radio waves that astronomers believed was a fast radio burst (FRB) from far beyond the ...

Astronomers have discovered a new object that originated outside of our Solar System — only the third to be found.

The icy giant is more than 10 times the size of any known comet, according to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that ...

Radio telescopes saw a strange burst of unknown energy in June 2024. Now we know it was from Relay 2, an early ...