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

Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet using the direct-imaging technique. The host star's light was ...

Astronomers have discovered a new interstellar comet passing through our solar system, marking the third interstellar object ...

The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On ...

For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system.

Using the Magellan Telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, astronomers have performed a chemical study of a globular ...