Musk, the billionaire businessman behind Tesla and SpaceX, influenced several new Texas laws this year. How his lobbyists ...

The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...

Figuring out the ages of stars is fundamental to understanding many areas of astronomy—yet, it remains a challenge since ...

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

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme — triggering stellar flares from their own ...

Astronomers have spotted an alien planet orbiting so closely to its home star, the planet's magnetic field is triggering ...

Astronomers uncover how massive stars form by tracking interstellar ammonia. Using the U.S. National Science Foundation ...

White Dwarf Discovery Could Transform How Scientists Measure the Universe In A Nutshell Astronomers found direct evidence ...

"This tangible evidence of a double detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers ...

Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic evidence, captured using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large ...

Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...