A dramatic cosmic event, a rare dwarf nova that suddenly brightened by a factor of 2,500, has been discovered with the help ...

A space telescope has captured the first ever evidence of a star "double detonation" as it reached the end of its life ...

Astronomers have visually confirmed a star's demise through double detonation, using the European Southern Observatory's Very ...

Learn more about WASP-121b, the exoplanet so hot it could vaporize iron.

Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...

Citizen scientists working with the Kilonova Project made their first confirmed discovery of a rare exploding star, enabling ...

An object thought to have come from another star has been seen entering the solar system at high speed, and is expected to ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

Since its debut in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has dazzled viewers with its infrared images of galaxies, nebulae, ...

An explosion captured in a new image could help astronomers to better understand the "standard candles" at the center of a ...

"Astronomers may have just discovered the third interstellar object passing through the Solar System!" the agency's ...

Citizen scientists have spotted the moment a binary star system exploded after playing “spot the difference” with images from ...