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 ...

NASA explains that the explosion occurs roughly every 78-80 years when the smaller white dwarf stars accretes too much ...

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) ...

The system is almost flat from the telescope's vantage point in space ... But, as they age, they'll eventually merge, exploding in a supernova and leaving behind a neutron star, one of the ...

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 ...

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

For the first time, scientists have directly measured a weak r-process reaction using a radioactive ion beam, shedding light ...

More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to Earth, a pair of telescopes has revealed multiple rocky worlds around ...

A combination of the world's most powerful telescopes detected the planets. Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from ...

According to an article published by NASA on Wednesday, March 26, the Webb telescope “captured bright auroral activity on Neptune” for the very first time in June 2023. Despite “successful ...