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

Advances and the arrival of new technologies have allowed astronomy, the science that studies celestial bodies and phenomena ...

A recent study has uncovered a dramatic interaction between a planet and its parent star that is reshaping our understanding ...

In other cases, another member of the system will go on to form a second white dwarf. If gravitational instabilities bring ...

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 ...

Less than two weeks later, on June 25, reports began to circulate of a second nova blossoming in the southern night sky, this time in the constellation Vela. This nova — later designated V572 Velorum ...

The research draws on two existing approaches to better estimate stars’ ages.

After the roaring success of Akhanda, the mass-action saga is returning in a bigger avatar with Akhanda 2: Thaandavam, ...

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

According to a fairly new theory, white dwarfs can explode twice in a row in certain circumstances. For the first time, we ...

Astronomers using the «James Webb» telescope have discovered a rare jellyfish-like galaxy in deep space.

Algol is not a single star but a multiple-star system, primarily consisting of two main components, Algol A and Algol B, which orbit a common center of mass. A third, fainter star, Algol C, also ...