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 ...

The world's most powerful telescopes, including the James Webb Space Telescope and FAST, are revolutionizing our ...

Whether you observe in the morning or evening, the solar system has something for you today as two worlds reach their ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

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

“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 ...

Low-mass stars like our Sun expel their outer layers as a planetary nebula because of what is going on in the star’s core as it ages.

Around 1,000 scientists are attending the Royal Astronomical Society's (RAS) annual National Astronomy Meeting 2025 (NAM) ...

Goar’s passion is the Dark Sky Telescope Program that runs through Sept. 21, and that takes place in the Hurricane Ridge ...