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

In the constellation Perseus the Hero, the star Algol is fun to watch due to its regular changes in brightness. And you don’t ...

For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the ...

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

From a Mars rover selfie to an astronaut's view of the flower moon, these space images will give you a new perspective on our planet and our universe.

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

Stargazers are in for a treat tonight as Mars, the Red Planet, draws strikingly close to Regulus, a bright blue star. The striking will be visible to the naked eye, with the vivid contrast between ...

A powerful new telescope in Chile is set to transform astronomy, and its first pictures of stellar nurseries and galaxies ...

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 shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...

For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but ...