"This rare event provides an opportunity for astronomers to observe a black hole's behavior in real time," said astronomer ...

An analysis of star movements from the Gaia spacecraft reveals that the Small Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy bound to ...

The team used more than a decade’s worth of observations of Uranus’ unique aurorae taken with Hubble and refined the planet’s ...

The black hole at the heart of galaxy SDSS1335+0728, located 300 million light-years away, was quiet for decades as it consumed little matter and was in a dormant state. But recently it suddenly lit ...

Scientists have observed a previously inactive supermassive black hole producing regular, powerful X-ray eruptions that ...

When T CrB does explode, it will look like a very bright star in the night sky in the Corona Borealis constellation. People around the world will be able to track its brightness, providing better ...

In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the ...

Astronomers have revealed an exoplanet called Enaiposha to be a one-of-a-kind "super Venus" whose carbon-dioxide-rich ...

In a star’s core, fusion takes terrific temperature and pressure that is provided by the crushing gravity of the star’s overlying mass. For a star to be relatively stable, the outward force of the ...

Planets are eaten by dying stars as they turn into red giants and expand. Earth will be eaten by the sun in billions of years ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revisited a star that swallowed a planet and found that instead of the star subsuming the ...

Astronomers find a binary star system that will detonate as a type Ia supernova, offering direct evidence for a top theory ...