The first double-burst supernova ever observed, SNR 0509, is a historic discovery that reveals how white dwarfs explode in ...

A Douglas County native who is an associate professor of astronomy at California Institute of Technology, or Caltech, ...

A study of supernova remnant SNR 0519-69.0 using the Chandra X-ray telescope, Hubble and more has narrowed down its age to ...

Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in a star. It is likely a direct descendant of one of the universe's first ...

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

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

When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t ...

A new study from Kyoto University has shown that white dwarfs, can be significantly hotter than expected when locked in tight ...

White dwarfs are the compact remnants of stars that have stopped nuclear burning, a fate that will eventually befall our sun.

A network of optical cavities could be used to detect gravitational waves (GWs) in an unexplored range of frequencies, ...

Scientists using a global array of radio telescopes have detected the universe’s lowest-mass dark object by observing how it ...