The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to determine the mass of white dwarf star LAWD 37. It is "56 percent the mass of our Sun," according to NASA/ESA. Credit: NASA, ESA, P. McGill (Univ. of ...

NASA has identified a rare and unusual "blue lurker" star that was produced during the collapse of a triple-star system in ...

Rare blue lurker star found in the M67 open star cluster Unusual rotation speed linked to stellar mergers in a triple system ...

According to the research shared at the 245th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in National Harbor, Maryland, the ...

You probably know about the buildings or train station named for President Biden, but he's also the namesake for a dwarf ...

A new, venomous Sydney funnel-web spider species was discovered in Australia, nicknamed 'Big Boy.' Space advancements continue with Stoke Space and Loft Orbital securing substantial investments, while ...

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a snapshot of a rare supernova that sits in the Gemini constellation, about 650 ...

Astronomers detected X-ray flashes from the black hole that increased in frequency from one every 18 minutes to one every seven minutes.

When some of the biggest stars reach the end of their lives, they explode in spectacular supernovas and leave behind ...

A distant supermassive black hole, the mysterious 1ES 1927+654, emits X-ray pulses unlike anything previously recorded, which ...

A massive white dwarf and a sun-like "blue lurker" star tell a remarkable story of what was once a triple-star system in the ...