The Einstein Probe was launched in January 2024 to study the high-energy universe, and among its instruments is its ...

"The diversity of ways that white dwarf stars can blow up is much greater than previously expected." There are a lot of ways ...

Around 13.7 billion years ago, something collapsed. It fell outward into the nothingness that stretched in every direction, leaving something behind. A dense plasma, made of fundamental particles ...

Researchers have found that stars in the early universe may have formed from 'fluffy' molecular clouds. Using the ALMA telescope to observe the Small Magellanic Cloud -- whose environment is similar ...

A red supergiant star appears to have changed in just a few years – an astronomical blink of an eye – which suggests it may ...

Stars are born in dense molecular clouds, but did they always form this way? Recent research suggests that in the early ...

By looking ever further back in time, the James Webb Space Telescope is at last revealing the first galaxies – and a very ...

There are plenty of types of stars out there, but one stands out for being just a little weirder than the others. You might even say it's strange. According to a paper from researchers at Guangxi ...