A nested series of dusty spirals is captured swirling around a mighty triple star system containing two of the rarest stars ...

The Webb telescope has unlocked a mystery in an exotic star system located approximately 8,000 light-years from Earth. Using ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, recorded the moment a star’s explosion broke through its surface. The nearby supernova, ...

Researchers at Cornell University have developed the first-ever reflectance spectra — essentially a color-coded key — of the ...

ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3.

A journey across 440 light-years to the young star HD 135344B surrounded by a dust ring featuring the tell-tale fingerprint ...

Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a first of its kind: a crisp mid-infrared image of a system of four ...

Webb's mid-infrared image shows four coiled shells of dust around a pair of Wolf-Rayet stars known as Apep for the first time ...

Thanks to observations using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), astronomers have ...

When Galileo pointed his telescope at Saturn and Jupiter, he had just discovered the nature of two giant planets. Later came Uranus and Neptune, two more gas giants. Since then, astronomers have ...

Scientists have observed the early stages of a star's violent death – a supernova – for the first time. The shape of these ...