"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

In 2020, astronomers detected WD 1856+534 b, a gas giant that orbits a star 81 light-years from Earth. This exoplanet, which ...

Scientists have discovered two rare white dwarfs—which are among the dimmest stars in the universe—that feature changes in ...

For many years it was believed that the surface of most, if not all, white dwarfs was made up primarily of hydrogen. But then ...

C.E, Chinese astronomers spotted a supernova and dubbed it the "guest star." The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Víctor M ...

The findings suggest that there are many more targets of opportunity for locating potentially habitable worlds across our ...

In 2018 astronomers at MIT and elsewhere observed previously unseen behavior from a black hole known as 1ES 1927+654, which ...

Thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It's been sending back galactic data and images ...

An international team of astronomers has performed optical photometric, polarimetric and spectroscopic observations of a ...

Researchers conducted the first-ever near-infrared analysis of an extragalactic recurrent nova and found it is one of the ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows thousands of glittering galaxies that it spied by peering through ...