The once-dubbed "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 has surprised scientists with its 'unusual' shape as it rapidly rotates ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - ...

The team used more than a decade’s worth of observations of Uranus’ unique aurorae taken with Hubble and refined the planet’s ...

Astronomers have long predicted that two orbiting white dwarfs are the cause of most type 1a supernova explosions. While the ...

University of Warwick astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high-mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light ...

ALMA has revealed evidence of a new type of slim, filamentary structure that drives cycles of depletion and replenishment. At the heart of our galaxy, in the turbulent region surrounding the ...

Astronomers have revealed an exoplanet called Enaiposha to be a one-of-a-kind "super Venus" whose carbon-dioxide-rich ...

Despite being a scenario widely pondered by astronomers and Hollywood writers for decades, further observations have since determined YR4 will not impact the Earth in 2032 as originally predicted.

The discovery of the binary star system was made by astronomers at the University of Warwick in England. "We predict that the binary will explode dynamically by means of a double detonation that ...

A dramatic cosmic event is winding up to occur right in our backyard. Astronomers have spotted a pair of stars bound for ...

The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck ...

Skygazers can enjoy meteor showers and other dazzling displays in the night sky all month long, according to astronomers.