The night sky may look calm, but behind the glowing points of light lies a violent and complex process of creation. Stars, ...

Astronomers observed the fading light of supernova SN 2025kg, which followed the fast X-ray transient (FXT) named EP 250108a.

Learn how many suns exist in the Milky Way and how to understand how many sun-like stars are out there could help us ...

A star found in the Large Magellanic Cloud is remarkably unpolluted by heavier elements, suggesting it is descended from the ...

The low carbon levels are particularly interesting, as previously discovered “pristine” or metal-poor stars generally displayed high carbon levels. Astronomers believed that relatively heavier ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has made a significant breakthrough in the field of astronomy by refining the age of the ...

Massive stars do not live long. There are several candidates for the biggest star in the universe. One of them, VY Canis Majoris, is over 1,500 times the width of the sun. If it were placed in our ...

Are we alone? It's one of the most basic questions of human existence. People have been trying to answer it for millennia in ...

The very first stars in the universe may have been much smaller than scientists thought — potentially explaining why we can't find evidence of them today. The first stars in the universe may have been ...