The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and ...

It appears our solar system is getting more popular with out-of-towners. Astronomers have found a third interstellar object, ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

The most distant known example of what astronomers call a “jellyfish galaxy” has been spotted by NASA’s James Webb Space ...

In other cases, another member of the system will go on to form a second white dwarf. If gravitational instabilities bring ...

The newly observed binary system features a cataclysmic variable star, designated GOTO0650, which is in a rarely seen late stage of its evolution. This was also the first major discovery for the ...

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

According to a fairly new theory, white dwarfs can explode twice in a row in certain circumstances. For the first time, we ...

For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the centuries-old remains of supernova SNR 0509-67.5 with the European Southern ...

An object from outside the Solar System has been spotted hurtling towards the Sun, which, if confirmed, would be the third ...

Scientists at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have tracked the first-ever visual proof of double detonations in white ...