Planet-forming disks are rapidly disintegrated when blasted with high-energy radiation from massive young stars.

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided a dramatic and colorful close-up look at one of the most rambunctious stars ...

Elizabeth Hays, chief of the Astroparticle Physics Laboratory at NASA Goddard, told ABC7 in a live interview that this "zombie star" explodes in a blaze of light every 80 years or so, due to it ...

BRITS have one last chance to see the "comet of the century" tonight before it disappears for 80,000 years. Magnificent Comet A3 has been visible from the skies over the last few nights - and ...

In November 2024, a supermoon will illuminate the sky, coinciding with various global festivals such as Kartik Purnima, Loy ...

There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...

Saturn shines in the south most of the night, Jupiter rises in the early evening, while Mars is visible in the early morning sky.

largely unchanging white dwarf and its companion star, an aging red giant that has swelled to more than 400 times our sun's size and dims and brightens over a fairly long period of 387 Earth days ...

From the colourful Lagoon Nebula, to the mesmerizing Butterfly nebula, check out these 7 amazing images of nebulae captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

Along the lunar orbital path, the point of closest proximity is known as perigee, which is when the moon is, on average, 226,000 miles (363,300 kilometers) from Earth. When a full moon phase ...

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under ...