Two new stars, or nova eruptions, have been resolved in unprecedented detail by six optical telescopes operating in unison as ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured an uncommon sight—the death of a low-mass star—in this image of the Calabash Nebula ...

It's just a matter of time before a dead star reignites in space 3,000 light years away. And you'll be able to see it with the naked eye despite the distance. Astronomers say when the explosion ...

A new discovery, made using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), may just be the weirdest exoplanet yet, possessing an ...

What's the best way to reveal what an exoplanet is made of? Wait for it to get gravitationally shredded and engulfed by its star, of course! Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, ...

A 3-billion-year-old white dwarf, the core of a dead star, consumed an exoplanet from its former planetary system. Credit: NASA / ESA / Joseph Olmsted illustration A dead star core about 145 ...

Astronomers find an explanation for the fastest stars in the galaxy while uncovering a new mechanism for a supernova explosion. Credit: Technion illustration Astronomers call a special kind of ...

The galaxy our planet inhabits is called the Milky Way for the simple reason that, as seen from our world, its impossible-to-count collection of stars looks like a band of milky white light. In all ...