When it does take place, the outburst will be brief but it will appear as a new star in the sky for a little less than a week ...

Skygazers have been waiting for over a year to see a recurrent nova that creates a temporary, super-bright star every 80 years or so. A new study suggests that it could finally happen this week — but ...

"This work highlights Euclid’s remarkable ability to detect and characterize dwarf galaxies, enabling a comprehensive view of ...

Jean Schneider of the Paris Observatory published in the Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society in October 2024, ...

Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

The search for habitable planets has taken a leap forward with new space telescopes probing exoplanet atmospheres for life.

A white dwarf and a red dwarf star have been discovered closely orbiting each other emitting radio pulses every two hours.

Life could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...

A puzzling new type of radio signal – lasting seconds to minutes – has been linked to a binary star system featuring a white ...

Florida Tech's Caldon Whyte is two years into a lengthy universe exploration to earn his Ph.D. in space sciences. After ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Scientists already know that a planet must be in the “Goldilocks zone”—not too hot and not too cold—to have liquid water, a ...