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

When their end comes, the stars will explode in a blast making them around 200,000 times brighter than Jupiter does now.

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 ...

Astronomers find a binary star system that will detonate as a type Ia supernova, offering direct evidence for a top theory ...

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 ...

Astronomers have gotten a glimpse of the "city-killer" asteroid before it disappears until 2028, according to NASA.

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.

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