Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

O'Grady and her colleagues found no sign of X-rays in the Chandra data. Even assuming that the wind gusting out of Betelgeuse ...

New X-ray observations reveal Betelgeuse’s mysterious companion is not a collapsed stellar remnant but a young, Sun-like ...

For decades, astronomers have known that stars orbit the Milky Way’s centre and that the galactic disc is warped.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team led by Northwestern University has for the first time ...

The Milky Way ripples like a vast cosmic wave. Gaia’s precise measurements reveal a colossal motion sweeping through the ...

A study looking at ancient texts may have found evidence of a galactic supernova in a poem praising Saladin, the first sultan of Egypt and Syria, written between December 1181 and May 1182 CE. The ...

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For decades, scientists have suspected that Betelgeuse—the giant red star that forms Orion’s shoulder—wasn’t alone. Now, a ...

These 10 beautiful towns offer peaceful streets and stunning mountain views! This southern Utah gem sits tucked between some of the most jaw-dropping scenery on the planet. Red and orange cliffs rise ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have performed infrared observations of a planetary debris disk ...