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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

An international team of researchers, led by scientists from GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Germany, has studied r-process ...

The Supreme Court decision that limits the power of federal judges to issue nationwide injunctions signals a shift in power between the executive and the judicial branches. Former Deputy Assistant ...

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

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...