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 ...

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

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 ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

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 ...