The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies and satellites of the Milky Way. The LMC is about 163,000 ...

About 880 light-years from Earth, a hot mess of an exoplanet is slowly spilling its atmosphere into space, creating two ...

A case of astronomical fratricide is doomed to end in a fiery supernova bright enough to be spotted from Earth during the day ...

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

Astronomers have long noticed that stars around the Sun fall into two well-defined chemical groups, divided by their levels ...

In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, a group of researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of international researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of gigantic ...

Astronomers say a star system 10,000 light-years away could put on one of the brightest shows in the night sky, with a ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

JWST uncovers evidence of ancient “monster stars” whose extreme chemistry may explain the origins of early supermassive black ...

A new study using Auriga simulations explains the Milky Way’s chemical bimodality. Stars split into magnesium-rich and iron-rich sequences, revealing multiple evolutionary paths shaping our galaxy.