According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

Astronomers have identified two massive white dwarf stars in a binary system within the Milky Way, poised for a rare ...

A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms.

The two stars, gravitationally bound to each other in a binary system, are located in our Milky Way galaxy about 160 ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down its communication systems and central computer and said goodbye to this ...

This discovery offers a glimpse into the dramatic and explosive fates awaiting some of the universe's most fascinating ...

A new trail in this southern Arizona city plots the most visitor-friendly astronomy stops—and there are plenty to choose from ...

These icy bodies contain organic molecules — and don’t fall into any known category of celestial object we’ve seen before.

With the gap between them very gradually narrowing as the binary system loses energy, the fact that they are so massive and so close ensures their demise over a large timescale.

A new trail in this southern Arizona city plots the most visitor-friendly astronomy stops—and there are plenty to choose from ...

Glowing like a multi-faceted jewel, the planetary nebula IC 418 lies about 2000 light-years from Earth in the constellation ...