Within one of the "toe beans" of the feline footprint exists a subset of "mini toe bean-reminiscent" structures composed of ...

New images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show young stars forming within a "toe bean" on the Cat's Paw Nebula.

A mobile app lets citizen scientists flag anomalies in space that are hard for computers to detect.

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

Astronomers have taken the first ever image that shows what happens when a star explodes twice in a supernova.

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

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

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

MUSE allows astronomers to map the distribution of different chemical elements, displayed here in different colours. Calcium ...

Venus continues to be the “Morning Star” in the east before dawn, albeit it has become dimmer — but still bright — as it ...

July’s predawn sky offers some rare events, providing another reason to get outdoors to enjoy the relatively cool mornings.

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