The stars in a binary can vary widely in mass, size, and brightness, and their interactions often shape their evolution in ...

For the first time, astronomers have spotted a rapidly spinning neutron star that is gravitationally bound to a helium star ...

What if black holes weren’t the only things slowly vanishing from existence? Scientists have now shown that all dense cosmic ...

Galactic bones, filaments of radio-wave-emitting particles, run through our galaxy, and one of them has a fracture. New ...

Stars have magnetic fields that initially get stronger as the speed of the star’s rotation increases. There are still aspects ...

Astronomers may have discovered a rare type of binary star system, where one star used to orbit inside its partner.

You need to start with a star shedding material ahead of the explosion, something common in several types of supernova.

It might seem unfathomable, but that mind-boggling max age for the universe is far lower than the previously predicted 10 ...

As telescopes gaze into space, they also peer back in time. Starlight takes years—sometimes billions—to reach Earth, letting ...

Astrophysicists have proposed a new theoretical maximum lifespan for the universe, which suggests that dead stars are ...