The researchers confirmed that two enormous stars, each more than 20 times the mass of the sun, are growing inside ...

Like earthquakes, ripples of gas on a star's surface — referred to as stellar quakes — offer clues about what lies beneath.

Research based on a 2023 image of the Sagittarius C stellar nursery, taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, has ...

University of Warwick astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high-mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light ...

Astronomers have long predicted that two orbiting white dwarfs are the cause of most type 1a supernova explosions. While the ...

Right after launching, a bunch of satellites heading to join the megaconstellation looks like a string of moving stars going up in the sky. Within a week or so, they reach a higher elevation and are ...

Webb first observed the region called Sagittarius C in 2023. Now researchers are now using those observations to study star formation in the wider area around the center of the Milky Way, known as the ...

Researchers interrogated the 'sounds' of a cluster of stars within the Milky Way, uncovering a new technique for astrophysicists to probe the universe and learn more about its evolution.

The SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY is a part of the Smithsonian Institution which, in conjunction with the Harvard ...

The "music" of starquakes—enormous vibrations caused by bursting bubbles of gas that ripple throughout the bodies of many ...

Charles Ross' exhibition, "Mansions of the Zodiac," at the Harwood Museum of Art is a representation of mind-bogglingly vast cosmic cycles, but what makes it great are the small, human touches. The ...

POLARIS has long helped mariners find their way through our planet's seas and oceans by pointing the way north.