The James Webb Space Telescope captured imagery of dynamic star-forming region NCG 346 within the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC ...

The ALMA radio telescope array in the Atacama Desert temporarily halted operations after a rare snowfall blanketed the base ...

Type Ia supernovae are triggered by white dwarfs—the fading cores of dead stars. These stellar corpses often steal matter ...

Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

The Sh2-46 nebula has been captured by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. The nebula is ...

The space-based observatory has revolutionized the way we see space, and it can now add another remarkable accomplishment to ...

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 ...

Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...

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

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

Using the Magellan Telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, astronomers have performed a chemical study of a globular ...