The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to determine the mass of white dwarf star LAWD 37. It is "56 percent the mass of our ...

Any day now, a massive stellar blast dubbed "the Blaze Star" could light up the night sky so brightly, you won't even need a ...

Astronomers are once again getting excited about a rare nova that could appear in the night sky anytime from now into the ...

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has detected "a scar imprinted on the surface" of white dwarf star ...

In 2020, astronomers detected WD 1856+534 b, a gas giant that orbits a star 81 light-years from Earth. This exoplanet, which ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

Astronomers are excitedly waiting for the arrival of a new light in the sky this year that appears once every 80 years. The ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has investigated an exoplanet that’s super cool — literally. The huge planet, which is six ...

In 2018 astronomers at MIT and elsewhere observed previously unseen behavior from a black hole known as 1ES 1927+654, which ...