For centuries, stargazers have watched a new star light up in the sky. Just days later, it vanishes. Today we call the star ...
The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. Though it looks like a bubble or eye from Earth's point of view, the Helix is actually a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases. In its center ...
A long-anticipated midnight sky show slated to take place in the darkened heavens over Maine is late and nobody knows for ...
Potentially habitable exoplanets are so incredibly common that astronomers have started to consider more unusual situations ...
A round every 80 years, the system we call T Coronae Borealis experiences a sudden increase in brightness. It becomes up to 1 ...
A study of supernova remnant SNR 0519-69.0 using the Chandra X-ray telescope, Hubble and more has narrowed down its age to several hundred of years. The remnant is located in the "Large Magellanic ...