The James Webb Space Telescope has detected unusual dark beads in Saturn's ionosphere and a lopsided star pattern in its stratosphere. These previously unseen features may be interconnected and linked ...

Astronomers have identified V Sagittae, a dying star system 10,000 light-years away, poised for a spectacular finale. A white dwarf is consuming its companion star, creating a thermonuclear inferno.

A companion star may have stripped silicon layers. This provided a new window into stellar death. Astronomers have observed the inner layers of a dying star through a rare type of stellar explosion ...

The south shore of St. Croix became a stage for stories about Anansi, the trickster spider of African and Caribbean and ...

Astronomers from the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy have identified a new category of events that they found ...

Scientists have used the Gaia Space Telescope to create a 3D map of star kindergartens within the Milky Way, and you can fly through it.

Hubble’s latest look at Messier 96 reveals a warped spiral galaxy glowing with rings of stellar birth. The new details shed light on how stars emerge and influence their surroundings.

Telescopes on the National Mall tonight will give people a chance to see the stars and experience the largest astronomy outreach event in the United States.

Astronomers have witnessed a rare “extremely stripped supernova” that exposed the inner silicon layers of a dying star, confirming theories of stellar fusion and offering new insight into how ...

A new class of supermassive black holes embedded in a thick gas shell could explain small red dots in images from the James ...

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Whether you are in the U.S. hoping to spot Venus beside the moon today, or in Europe awaiting the rare occultation, September ...