Overall, the citizen scientists identified 10,001 eclipsing binary pairs. Of those, 7,936 were previously unknown.

This fan-favorite double star at the head of Cygnus the swan shows off stunning contrasting colors through a telescope.

"This tangible evidence of a double detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured imagery of dynamic star-forming region NCG 346 within the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC ...

Planetariums were a hit with the public. Within decades, they had spread around the world – the first planetarium in the ...

For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but ...

The Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Space Sciences, and Technology (SAASST) at the University of Sharjah (UoS) organised a ...

The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...

Figuring out the ages of stars is fundamental to understanding many areas of astronomy—yet, it remains a challenge since ...

In a stellar nursery 460 light-years away, astronomers sharpened old ALMA data and spotted crisp rings and spirals swirling ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

The latest science news on astronomy, space, and astrophysics. Topics. Week's top; Latest ... Some are quenched, meaning they've depleted their star forming gas and form very few new stars. Some ...