Seventy light-years from Earth, a star called Kappa Tucanae A harbors one of astronomy's most perplexing mysteries: dust so ...

Astronomers from Texas have witnessed the moment a star's surface is torn apart by a supernova, becoming oblong in the ...

Stars usually form in clusters, which can also form in pairs or groups. Binary clusters (BCs) are defined as pairs of open ...

Astronomers discovered a companion star in Kappa Tucanae A, explaining the persistence of hot dust and creating a natural ...

Chilean astrophotographer Osvaldo Castillo captured this breathtaking view.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered puzzling ultraviolet radiation around young stars in a stellar nursery.

Scientists have finally confirmed a powerful coronal mass ejection from another star, using LOFAR radio data paired with ...

A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.

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Astronomers have uncovered clues to a red giant’s chaotic past by detecting subtle stellar vibrations that hint at a long-ago collision and an unexpectedly rapid spin. Astronomers at the (IfA) have pi ...

The first official image from the Vera Rubin Observatory has revealed a ghostly river of stars stretching farther than our ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has shown us images of space we’d never see otherwise, and one of the latest wonders it has ...