A new low-frequency radio image offers the most comprehensive view yet of the Milky Way’s southern sky. Astronomers at the International Center of (ICRAR) have produced the most detailed low-frequency ...

Astronomers have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact Earth-sized stellar ember - that is creating a colorful shockwave ...

In this last part of our series on recently digitized books from the Wenner Collection, we are focusing on works that ...

A mysterious, rainbow-like glow has been spotted shimmering around a dead star just 731 light-years from Earth. The ...

A dead star 730 light years away appears to be forming a powerful structure around itself — and despite their best efforts, ...

In this case, RXJ0528+2838 is orbited by a still-living star similar in size to our sun. In such cases, material from the ...

"We found something never seen before and, more importantly, entirely unexpected," team leader Simone Scaringi of Durham ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

The central square image, taken with the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, shows shock waves around the dead ...

Professor Shrinivas Kulkarni, a renowned US-based astronomer, has been awarded the prestigious Gold Medal by the Royal ...

The gravitational lens JVAS B1938+666 consists of massive bodies ranging from 6.5 billion to 11 billion light-years away, ...

Scientists observing the red giant star R Doradus have found that starlight isn’t strong enough to drive its stellar winds, ...