For the first time, astronomers have spotted a star that exploded not once, but twice. A new image of a roughly 300-year-old supernova provides visual evidence that some dying stars undergo a double ...

The only place that's likely to happen is at the very center of our galaxy. And, for a while, there was an excess of ...

An international team of astronomers has uncovered new evidence to explain how pulsing remnants of exploded stars interact ...

Macquarie University astronomers have tracked an extreme planet's orbital decay, confirming it is spiraling toward its star in a cosmic death dance that could end in three possible ways.

When HIP 67522 b was discovered, it was the youngest known planet orbiting its star in under 10 days. Astronomers were using ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

NASA's James Webb Telescope has been investigating the first-ever case of a star caught swallowing a planet—and, in classic crime thriller style, there has been a plot twist. Instead of the star ...

NASA's Chandra telescope was used to uncover the explosive past of an ancient dead star through 'space archaeology.' ...

A star system 5,000 light-years from Earth, surrounded by layers of dust, could help scientists better understand the final stages of stellar life.

NASA says a recently spotted star cluster bears an uncanny resemblance to a holiday wreath and have named it "cosmic wreath" as a result.