Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

Some 200 light years from Earth, the core of a dead star is circling a larger star in a macabre cosmic dance. The dead star ...

"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new dusty star-forming galaxy at high redshift. The newfound ...

A red dwarf star just unleashed an explosive burst so powerful it could destroy planets. Could this event impact life ...

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 ...

Imaging shows NGC 6789 building stars in near-total isolation, pushing scientists to rethink gas supply and formation in ...

A blue compact dwarf galaxy in the Local Void, defies star formation theories by rapidly creating stars without collisions or ...

"Throwing a close companion into the mix could possibly wreak further havoc on the already complicated processes surrounding ...

Smart gardeners learn to think small. They do their homework, and they plant varieties that don’t grow any larger than the ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, confirmed a colossal coronal mass ejection from a distant star, a blast so powerful it could strip the atmosphere from any nearby planet. Astronomers using the Eu ...

The powerful coronal mass ejection would have likely destroyed the atmospheres of any potentially habitable planets nearby ...