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

"This tangible evidence of a double detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers ...

The American Astronomical Society (AAS), the SETI Institute, and the NASA Community College Network (NCCN) have teamed up to ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The Rubin Observatory released its first images last week, and ...

Advances and the arrival of new technologies have allowed astronomy, the science that studies celestial bodies and phenomena ...

Astronomers have spotted an alien planet orbiting so closely to its home star, the planet's magnetic field is triggering ...

By studying faint vibrations within stars, scientists using the Keck Planet Finder have discovered internal features that ...

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