A team of astronomers have made a fascinating discovery that forces us to rethink our understanding of how dead stars behave.

Astronomers have used a novel technique to find evidence of a secret "buddy" star orbiting Betelgeuse, one of the brightest ...

The theorists predict that the beginning of the end will be in about 10 billion years — less than the present age of the ...

The origins of life may be rooted in outer space, according to a new study. Astronomers have discovered signs of complex ...

Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes "have determined that a giant black hole has destroyed a large star and strewn its contents into space," according to NASA. Credit: ...

Unlike active galaxies that constantly pull in surrounding material, these black holes lie dormant until a star passes by.

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team of astronomers led by Abubakar Fadul from the Max ...

In an unprecedented breakthrough, an international team of astronomers has successfully captured, for the first time, the ...

The findings confirm a long-standing theory first proposed in the early 1900s. More importantly, it sheds new light on how massive stars evolve and die, as well as how their close companions might ...

Astronomer's head of HR, Kristin Cabot, resigned on Thursday, a week after the Coldplay kiss-cam scandal went viral.

The Vera Rubin telescope is poised to kick off an explosive era of discovery. "It's like old-fashioned astronomy: Find the ...

Chemical evolution begins before planets are formed: The findings suggest that protoplanetary discs inherit and further ...