When planets are too close to the star they orbit, something absolutely life ending happens: the star siphons all of the ...

Are these shafts celestial guides, spiritual conduits, or just clever engineering? The mystery of the Great Pyramid’s ...

Astronomy Update is provided by the Chippewa Valley Astronomical Society and is compiled by Dr. Lauren Likkel.

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

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme. At least, that's what astronomers found when ...

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

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

Background stars (Hubble): K. Noll et al ... "The explosions of white dwarfs play a crucial role in astronomy," team leader ...

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

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

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 ...

This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...