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

However, new research has shown this potentially "water ice-rich" visitor could be even more extraordinary than initially ...

The James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) is celebrating three years of transformational science with a striking new image 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 ...

With the bright Moon lighting the sky our focus is on easy-to-spot targets tonight, such as Albireo at the head of Cygnus the ...

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

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

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 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 ...