A catalog of over 2,000 exploding white dwarf vampire stars, the largest ever gathered, has provided further evidence that ...

Venus blazes near Zeta Tauri, recreating the sight astronomers saw in 1054 when the Crab Nebula’s progenitor star went ...

In the sprawling Hydra constellation, 137 million light-years away, lies NGC 3285B—a dazzling spiral galaxy recently ...

Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, may not be alone. And its potential companion may be responsible for ...

An international team of astrophysicists, led by Northwestern University and the University of Leicester in England, has ...

It took about 50 exploding stars to upend cosmology. Researchers mapped and measured light from Type Ia supernovae, the ...

More and more analyses indicate that dark energy is not constant – with potentially far-reaching consequences. Now a ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured imagery of supernova 2018 GV from 2018-2019. It was seen in barred spiral galaxy NGC 2525 ...

The two objects make for a strange pair. Unlike Betelgeuse, which is approaching the end of its life, the blue-white ...

A rogue, middle-mass black hole has been spotted disrupting an orbiting star in the halo of a distant galaxy, and it's all ...

What’s unique about this new supernova, called SN 2018zd, is that astronomers were able to compare Hubble and Spitzer space telescope images of its host galaxy before and after the explosion.