Not surprisingly, Venus is nicknamed “Morning Star” for when ... a quarter-lit. It's bright largely because of its global clouds of sulphuric acid, which reflect light very well if you can ...

At dusk on a late October night in 1408, something mysterious lit up the skies above China. Ming Dynasty astronomers who ...

Among the events it can identify are tidal disruption events, where a star gets spaghettified by the enormous gravity of a supermassive black hole. Normally, supermassive black holes live at the ...

ASKAP J1832 pulses every 44 minutes in both radio and X-rays—something never seen before—hinting at an entirely new type of ...

Credit: Alan Dyer/Stocktrek Images/Getty Images Early morning risers who head out to work and school before sunrise are likely beginning to notice an extremely bright star-like object appearing ...

The incident was first seen five years ago as a sudden bright flash of visible light, which scientists named ZTF SLRN-2020. Later, they noticed that the star had already started to glow in ...

The nova won’t look like an explosion, but like a new star that wasn’t there before. Any day now, a massive stellar blast could light up the ... Will the the bright nova be visible from ...