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

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

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

With the bright Moon lighting the sky our focus is on easy-to-spot targets tonight, such as Albireo at the head of Cygnus the ...

This is the first evidence for a white dwarf exploding not once, but twice. The discovery could shed new light on how some ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Astronomers uncover how massive stars form by tracking interstellar ammonia. Using the U.S. National Science Foundation ...