New technology is helping astronomers open new windows into novae, stellar explosions that can act as 'laboratories for ...

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

After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...

“Our latest discovery helps solve a 20-year cosmic mystery,” co-lead author Daniel Whalen from the University of Portsmouth's ...

We don't often get a good look at X-class solar flares from ground-based observatories.

Sarah Fortune, a marine ecologist at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, and her colleagues used drones and camera-equipped ...

Be ready, werewolves and witches, as well as general lovers of the night sky. The last full Moon of the year is happening on ...

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

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

What are the physics of life? That is more than just a philosophical question—it has practical implications for our search for life elsewhere in the galaxy. We know what Earth life looks like, on a ...

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Michigan, has captured unprecedented ...