Astronomers have obtained remarkably detailed images of two stellar explosions -- called novae -- just days after they began.

New high-resolution images show that novae are anything but simple stellar fireworks. One exploded with multiple gas streams ...

Carl Sagan once said, “Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.” These words ...

Astronomers have traced the origin of a colossal white dwarf to a catastrophic crash between two dead stars, turning a quiet ...

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A record-bright LFBOT exposes violent encounters between black holes and stars, helping astronomers understand extreme black ...

The discovery is the first direct observational confirmation of a theory for how young stars feed on, and then explosively ...

While surveying distant worlds beyond our solar system, researchers unexpectedly obtained the first direct images showing ...

Astronomers have decoded the hidden past of a distant red giant star by listening to tiny vibrations in its light, revealing ...

Properties that remain unchanged when materials are stretched or bent, which are broadly referred to as topological ...

In the run up to Christmas, carols fill the air. Many have an astronomical twist, singing of the "Christmas Star" from the ...

From crewed lunar voyages to flight tests of fully reusable rockets and launches of new orbital telescopes studying the outer ...