The orbit is tilted at least 30 or 40 degrees out of the plane of the sky." Wolf-Rayet stars are very massive, very hot, and ...

Scientists have been receiving X-ray signals from the Helix Nebula for decades, but now they believe it may hide a horrifying ...

The cosmic pinwheel that astronomers feared could one day shower Earth with lethal gamma rays may not be as dangerous as once thought.

Models of the pinwheel images indicated that it was rotating in the plane of the sky ... WR 104 gained a second nickname—the "Death Star." An artist’s animation of WR 104, first discovered ...

It’s ok, Darth Vader hasn’t got our humble planet in his sights! No this Death Star is a binary system where both stars are locked into an orbit which will lead to their collision, unleashing a ...

The world figure skating championships paused for a tribute to those those who died in a plane crash on their way back from a ...