"Throwing a close companion into the mix could possibly wreak further havoc on the already complicated processes surrounding ...
Astronomers have long watched the Sun hurl plasma into space, but the idea of catching a distant star in the act has become a ...
In the constellation Cygnus, a bright knot of stars seems to adorn one edge of a nearly perfect 20-light-year-wide circle, ...
The Hubble Space Telescope searches the universe to understand how planets, stars, and galaxies form. Recently, it captured this image of a nebula known as GN 04.32.8 within a larger stellar nursery ...
What can space weather from our Sun teach scientists about the habitability of exoplanets? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to address as a team of researchers ...
A superheated stellar factory in the early cosmos produces stars 180x faster than the Milky Way, reshaping models of galaxy ...
Astronomers say they spotted signs of a giant explosion releasing from a star beyond our solar system, one powerful enough to destroy a planet’s atmosphere.