WR 104 is notable not just for the rarity of Wolf-Rayet stars in the galaxy, but also for the spiral shape its escaping dust ...

Life could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...

Astronomers say that for many people, it will be a “once-in-a-lifetime” cosmic event. A star in the T Corona Borealis (T CrB) ...

Event Horizon Telescope: Moving Towards a Close-Up of ... 2024 — An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole ...

Webb’s exquisite details reveal a chance, random alignment of a protostellar outflow and a distant spiral galaxy. When we ...

A star called T Corona Borealis may "go nova" next week, making the star briefly visible to the naked eye. It last happened ...

As one of the only galaxies outside our own where telescopes can resolve individual ... can accelerate a star to such high speeds. A star exploding in a supernovae or being ejected from a tight ...

For over 40 years, astronomers have been puzzled by strange X-ray signals from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf. Now, they may ...

Their safe return is a win for Musk after a series of high-profile setbacks, from exploding Starship rockets to a Tesla stock crash. Musk did not respond to a request for comment. Williams' and ...

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Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...