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What happens when a star dies? Astronomers thought they had it all figured out. A dying star either fades into a simmering white dwarf, explodes and then shrinks into a...

Researchers at NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory may have watched a young star devouring a planet. For decades, scientists have observed irregular dimming of RW Aur A, a young star in...

NASA released a dazzling 3D image of the Crab Nebula on Sunday. Astronomers and visualization specialists from NASA have combined the visible, infrared, and X-ray vision of the space agency’s...

Scientists have used data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope to discover a “vampire” star “sucking” the life out of another star. Experts discovered a surprising “super-outburst” from a dwarf nova,...

Baby pictures of a newborn supernova have captured this stellar explosion after the first half-dozen hours of its life, shedding light on how these giant explosions happen, a new study...

The hottest-known planet in our galaxy is being stretched into the shape of a football and rapidly consumed by its parent star, new observations from the Hubble Space Telescope show....

In the days before the world was so readily connected — before the Internet, round-the-clock news stations, telephones and radio — humans relied on the natural world around them to...

It’s easy to see why so many world religions deify the sun. It powers life on Earth and holds our entire solar system together. Yet despite all its awe-inspiring brilliance,...

There is no question that the last few years of world history have seen a fair share of chaos and disorder. With so much global unrest, governments worldwide are struggling...

For the first time ever, researchers have watched a star race past the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, verifying that its motion showed the effects...