The Orion Nebula is a picture book of star formation, from the massive, young stars shaping the nebula to the pillars of dense gas that may be the homes of budding stars. The Trapezium resides in the ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

An international team of astronomers has conducted a multiwavelength study of an X-ray binary designated 1eRASS ...

A team of astronomers has discovered a link between black holes and stellar eruptions, suggesting the potential existence of ...

To the naked eye, the Milky Way (the Vía Láctea) is a path of pale white light seen ... of millions of older stars). Infrared can also reveal “cooler” objects, which glow at these wavelengths. These ...

A study of supernova remnant SNR 0519-69.0 using the Chandra X-ray telescope, Hubble and more has narrowed down its age to ...

That, along with its age, could point to an alternative formation mechanism, like a white dwarf that accumulated material ...

Nijmegen master's students predict that LISA, an upcoming space antenna project by the ESA, will detect stronger ...

Astronomers have spotted pure chaos lurking in the cosmos. Thousands of light years away from Earth, a small yet intensely ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times per second, placing it among the fastest-spinning stars ever observed. The ...

A new teaser for Disney's Snow White remake screened during D23 Brazil last night, and some footage introduced by star Rachel ...

Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.