Comet Lemmon is now visible with comet SWAN after sunset while also remaining visible before dawn for Northern Hemisphere ...

Professor Martin McCoustra from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, who took part in the study published in the Astronomy ...

NASA says its Hubble Space Telescope has captured evidence of a white dwarf star consuming the remnants of a Pluto-like object - a scenario that may predict what will happen to planets in our own ...

As this Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week shows in great detail, it's home to brilliant stars whose light is shaded by sculptural clouds, clumps and streaks of dust and gas. It's no surprise ...

White dwarf companion detected orbiting BSS4 in the cluster 47 Tucanae Hubble ultraviolet observations confirm the presence of a hot compact sta The system likely ...

One of the most famous sights in the night sky is the Eagle Nebula, a large cloud of gas and dust found about 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Serpens. Within it lies a structure that has ...

CARDIFF, Wales — Astronomers just got a front-row seat to one of the universe’s strangest chemistry experiments, and it’s happening inside the death throes of a star. Using the James Webb Space ...

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This star factory is the largest and brightest in its host galaxy. Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope caught this stunning image of the Tarantula nebula, the largest and brightest stellar factory in ...