In the run up to Christmas, carols fill the air. Many have an astronomical twist, singing of the "Christmas Star" from the ...

Brian Cox once toured as a keyboardist in major rock and pop bands. Now he’s a particle physicist on a new world tour with a ...

New observations of a nearby red giant star suggest that a long-standing explanation for how giant stars spread life’s ...

Astronomers have been treated to a stunning fireworks display from around a young star called The events, detected in 2004 ...

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar ...

You are watching a long-held idea in stellar physics face serious scrutiny. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, ...

Each ring is formed in the aftermath of an explosion, giving insight into the dynamic activity of SVS 13 from its infancy. An ...

Technical terms used in the Bible’s description point to a real astronomical event that could explore the origin of the star ...

The discovery is the first direct observational confirmation of a theory for how young stars feed on, and then explosively ...

Using Georgia State’s CHARA Array, an international team of scientists has uncovered unexpected complexity in how stars ...

Astronomers have decoded the hidden past of a distant red giant star by listening to tiny vibrations in its light, revealing ...

Insights gained by scientists while studying the R Doradus giant star could be applicable to other dying stars.