NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope provided a closer look at the aftermath of a star that wreaked violence on its planet ...

In the vast universe, galaxies rotate in ways that don’t make sense if only visible matter is considered. For almost a ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its ...

NASA's James Webb Telescope has been investigating the first-ever case of a star caught swallowing a planet—and, in classic ...

Initially mistaken for a star swallowing a planet, the James Webb Space Telescope revealed a dramatic collision. A planet, ...

In a star’s core, fusion takes terrific temperature and pressure that is provided by the crushing gravity of the star’s overlying mass. For a star to be relatively stable, the outward force of the ...

Astronomer Charles Steinhardt said most stars we see "might have formed under different conditions than we previously believed." ...

A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system. Interstellar material has been found within our solar system, but ...

Our new study of the nearby starburst galaxy Haro 11 has shown that strong X-ray-emitting superwinds may be a key mechanism ...