Neutron stars explained through stellar remnants and collapsed stars, revealing extreme density, gravity, magnetism, and ...

You are watching a long-held idea in stellar physics face serious scrutiny. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, ...

A supernova from the early universe looks unexpectedly familiar, challenging ideas about how the first massive stars lived ...

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Researchers are studying a rare double star explosion that could change how we understand space events. Astronomers may have seen a space event that has never been clearly confirmed before. It is ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was involved in yet another first discovery recently available in pre-print form on ...

"How heroic are you if you only do it when you’re threatened?” Seehorn ponders in a deep-dive conversation with The Hollywood ...

A study using NASA’s TESS data finds that aging Sun-like stars lose close-orbit planets as they evolve, offering insight into the long-term fate of planetary systems ...

Our sun is about halfway through its life, which means Earth is as well. After a star exhausts its hydrogen nuclear fuel, its diameter expands more than a hundredfold, engulfing any unlucky planets in ...

A double explosion, in which a dying star split, then recombined, may be a long-hypothesized but never-before-seen "superkilonova." ...

Scientists from several institutions, including the University of Chicago, discovered a lemon-shaped planet with an ...

A research team led by Caltech may have just discovered the first-ever superkilonova, a cosmic phenomenon in which a star ...