How many dwarf planets are there in our solar system? The recent discovery of 2017 OF201 makes the tally anywhere between ...

The Sun, our life-giving star, is slowly dying. In about 5 billion years, it will exhaust its fuel and transform into a red giant, altering the solar system forever. But long before that, the Sun’s ...

Astronomers studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 have finally caught a white dwarf in the act of a rare “double-detonation” ...

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

Studies of 15 M-type stars have revealed new insights into the potential presence of exoplanets. A new study led by ...

The planet, which astronomers believe is orbiting a young red dwarf star approximately 34 light years away, has been dubbed ...

For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the ...

Citizen scientists using the Kilonova Seekers platform spotted a stellar flash 2,500 times brighter than before, allowing ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

Venus moves east as July progresses and stands 3° due north of Aldebaran on the 14th, after skirting the northern regions of ...

Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...