Astronomers have been aware of cosmic vampires, dead stars that hungrily strip plasma from victim stars, for some time. New ...

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Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet – between three and ten times the size of Jupiter – hiding in the swirling disc ...

BENGALURU: Terming his 18-day stay on the International Space Station (ISS) incredible, Group Captain and astronaut Shubanshu Shukla encouraged science and space enthusiasts and said if one decides to ...

"This tangible evidence of a double detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers ...

That’s right, by listening to the sounds that a star makes, scientists can learn a lot about the star itself. This is a field known as asteroseismology and works by measuring waves as they pass ...

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its ...

“These objects collect the dark matter that helps them become a dark dwarf. The more dark matter you have around, the more ...

Credit: A Rainbow Mosaic of the Rosette and the Christmas Tree Nebulae © Shaoyu Zhang Behold! The 2025 ZWO Astronomy ...

An international team, including astronomers from Keele University, has performed a unique cosmic test to measure the mass of ...

The Alpha Capricornids and Southern Delta Aquariids meteor showers, which will both peak July 30, also coincide with a third ...

A star projector shows stars in the night sky against an orange backdrop in the De Anza College’s Fujitsu Planetarium in Cupertino on Oct. 31, 2024. Photo by Magali Gauthier. On a recent evening ...