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 ...

Held together by their mutual gravity, several of the dwarf galaxies (designated D1 to D5) are rhythmically dancing with one ...

T Coronae Borealis will brighten 1,000 times in 2025 to become visible to the naked eye for the first time since 1946.

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to determine the mass of white dwarf star LAWD 37. It is "56 percent the mass of our Sun," according to NASA/ESA. Credit: NASA, ESA, P. McGill (Univ. of ...

In a recent study, an Italian astronomer has investigated the nature of a binary system known as HD 49798/RX J0648.0–4418.

In 1925, grad student Cecilia Payne first proposed that stars were mostly made of hydrogen and helium and shaped our ...

BEIJING: A rural doctor in China who is less a metre tall who relies on his wife to carry him for house calls has treated ...

When our Sun dies, it will turn into a white dwarf. They are a common aspect of stellar evolution and a team of researchers ...

Unleash your curiosity about millinovae, the cosmic newcomers that bridge the gap between two well-known types of exploding stars.

The Hubble Space Telescope captures the mesmerizing galaxy LEDA 22057, home to a recent supernova explosion, SN 2024PI. This ...