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

Check out an amazing view of star cluster NGC 602. It "lies on the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud," according to the ...

Beginning in the 1960s, satellite instruments have measured Earth's reflected broadband shortwave radiation and emitted ...

Astronomers have captured a jaw-dropping picture of star that exploded twice. It is the first time researchers have obtained ...

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

(CN) — While all stars go out in a bang, some go out with two. For the first time, astronomers have recorded visual evidence ...

COBB COUNTY, Ga. — If you saw a large, funnel-looking cloud in the sky over metro Atlanta on Tuesday night, no, you didn’t ...

NGC 460 in the Small Magellanic Cloud reveals young star clusters shaping glowing gas clouds and nebulae, where stellar winds and radiation trigger new star formation. Credit: NASA, ESA, and C.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory released its first cosmic images on 23 June 2025, launching a 10-year sky survey with the world ...

Eighty years ago, presidential science advisor Vannevar Bush delivered to President Harry S. Truman a remarkable report entitled “ Science-The Endless Frontier .” In this report, Bush described the ...

The Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy are currently hurtling through space toward each other at a speed of about 250,000 miles per hour (400,000 kph), setting up a possible future ...

The odds of a galactic collision in our distant future are much lower than we thought, according to new simulations.