Unleash your curiosity about millinovae, the cosmic newcomers that bridge the gap between two well-known types of exploding stars.

Scientists have speculated that the cloud would have an unusual smell due to the presence of ethyl formate – which is what ...

These telescopes are much like the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, which can detect high-energy neutrinos from deep space but ...

Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and “weighed” a galaxy that existed about 600 million years after the Big Bang ...

On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and most powerful telescope humans have ever sent into space. It took 30 years to ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery: a binary star orbiting perilously close to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*. This stellar pair defies ...

Many stars in our galaxy exist in pairs. Now scientists are finding clues that our Sun may once have had a companion of its ...

By observing stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (LMC), which lacks large amounts of heavy elements, they found stars with ...

People have been seeing weird things in the sky since the beginning of recorded history, but popular fascination ...

Black holes continue to be some of the most fascinating celestial objects in the Universe – and odd things are being ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed 20-year-old Hubble observations that could finally explain how ancient stars can ...

Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Studying them ...