"The explosions of white dwarfs play a crucial role in astronomy," stated Priyam Das, a PhD student at the University of New South Wales Canberra and study leader. Das further described the findings ...

World's largest digital camera observes cosmos, capturing detailed images of galaxies, asteroids, and stars changing ...

Celebrate the Fourth with the Fireworks Galaxy, then check out the Demon Star Algol and the Full Buck Moon in the sky this ...

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

Astronomers studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 have finally caught a white dwarf in the act of a rare “double-detonation” supernova, where an initial helium blast on the star’s surface triggers a ...

The object gained an official name, C/2025 N1 or 3I/ATLAS, on Wednesday. Moving at a record-setting speed for an interstellar ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

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

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

Three new full-dome movies will highlight the July schedule at the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium.