White dwarfs are the compact remnants of stars that have stopped nuclear burning, a fate that will eventually befall our sun.

A stronomers from the Australian National University (ANU) have unveiled a ground-breaking discovery of binary stars in the ...

A discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according ...

A Caltech astrophysicist and an interdisciplinary artist who graduated from UCLA and the California Institute of the Arts ...

A game-changing instrument is set to improve the detection and direct imaging of planets outside our Solar System by ...

SWAN is best viewed in the Southern Hemisphere. The comet crossed into the Libra constellation on September 28, and will make ...

XRISM found a slow, thick wind from a neutron star, pointing to temperature as the key driver of cosmic wind behavior. The ...

Astronomers on Thursday released time-lapse movies dramatizing the fiery behavior of two young star systems, observations that could shed light on the genesis of our solar system. The nearby stars, ...

The detection of the molecule phosphine in a brown dwarf’s atmosphere may help astronomers in their search for life elsewhere ...

Now a team of researchers, led by University of California San Diego Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics Adam Burgasser, ...

Astronomers recently released a new image of the binary star system Eta Carinae's full spectrum, taken from deep in Chile's ...

The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, ...