Spotted: An object moving 1 million mph and zooming out of the Milky Way! Citizen scientists found the speeding stellar ...

Some white dwarfs in rapid binary orbits are far hotter and larger than theory predicts. Researchers found that powerful tidal forces between them generate enough heat to inflate their sizes and ...

The rapidly spinning red giant star, a phase stellar bodies around the size of the sun enter when they exhaust their fuel for nuclear fusion, dwells in the binary system Gaia BH2. Located around 3,800 ...

The Red Spider Nebula gives us a possible preview of what might happen to our own Sun in about 5 billion years: as the Sun runs out of fuel, it may also swell into a red giant, shed its outer layers, ...

NASA has announced the discovery of a peculiar celestial object named CWISE J1249, which challenges existing classifications ...

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 ...

Red Dwarf co-creator Doug Naylor has opened up the recently scrapped special episode of the beloved sci-fi comedy, revealing the “amazing” tech and plot details he had hoped to include. It was ...

Red Dwarf co-creator Doug Naylor has been talking further about the cancellation of the long-running sitcom. It was revealed in September that UKTV had backtracked on plans to make more of the sci-fi ...

A nearby galaxy once thought to be dominated by dark matter seems to have a surprise supermassive black hole at its centre. Segue 1 is barely a galaxy, with only about 1000 stars compared to the Milky ...

Small and unassuming, Segue 1 is a nearby dwarf galaxy containing only a handful of stars—too few to provide the gravity needed to keep itself from scattering into space. Like other dwarf galaxies, it ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected material from a Pluto-like body spiraling into a white dwarf star 260 light-years away from Earth. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Tim Pyle illustration For the ...