Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

"I was too broke to do anything but study, practice and play" - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on economic hardship during his UCLA days ...

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses.

Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...

Chinese researchers examining European data find freshly formed stars rotate much faster than their predecessors.

In Australia, millions of newly hatched Bogong moths embark on an impressive journey twice a year. Each spring, they hatch ...

Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...

Astronomers had long been suspecting that some stars do meet their end of life with a dual detonation and new images prove ...

Pulsars, the dense cores of collapsed stars, could potentially have tiny mountains on their surfaces, challenging our current ...

A species of Australian moth travels up to a thousand kilometers every summer using the stars to navigate, scientists said ...

Recent research indicates that two corroded artifacts from the Treasure of Villena, dating back 3000 years, may have ...

Galaxies shine in a rainbow of emissions from gas, dust, and stars. Each of these building blocks emits light at specific ...