Astronomers have solved the mystery of a star that has baffled scientists for over a century, finding it is a cannibal white dwarf about to blow in an explosion that will be visible with the naked eye ...

A star like the Sun lives modestly for billions of years, converting the nuclear fuel in its core into energy that ultimately escapes as light and heat. But the most spectacular phase of a Sun-like ...

As giant planet HIP 67522 b orbits its host star, it triggers its own doom. The planet orbits HIP 67522, a young star slightly larger than the Sun, in just 7 Earth days. At just 17 million years old, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Exploding white dwarfs observed by the Palomar 48 inch telescope at the Palomar Observatory in ...

The ever-busy James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently turned its gaze toward the core of our galaxy and revealed ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what appears to be a new type of supernova, as ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a stunning backdrop. The composite image makes it look ...

Astronomers at MIT, Columbia University, and elsewhere have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer through the dust of nearby galaxies and into the aftermath of a black hole's stellar ...

"We came across a group of outbursting variable stars exhibiting very characteristic triangle-shaped symmetrical outbursts that did not resemble any previously known variable stars." When you purchase ...

A mosaic image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a star's explosive death. © NASA/ESA All carbon in the universe forms in the ...

"The speed at which this doomed stellar system is lurching wildly, likely due to the extreme brightness, is a frantic sign of its imminent, violent end." Betelgeuse may have competition for the most ...