Sometimes "the universe comes to us," writes the European Space Agency. For the third time since 2017, an interstellar object ...

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

YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

Sculptor—officially labeled NGC 253—is considered a starburst galaxy, one heavy with stellar action. It's located 11 million light-years away in the Southern Hemisphere's constellation Sculptor, and ...

The third interstellar object detected has been named 3I/ATLAS and was discovered on July 1 from Chile. Astronomers from the ...

An astronomy centre deep in the Abu Dhabi desert has captured images of an interstellar comet streaking across the sky. Al ...

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the centuries-old remains of supernova SNR 0509-67.5 with the European Southern ...

Scientists have obtained photographic evidence of a double-detonation Type Ia supernova for the first time. This rare cosmic ...

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

Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...

Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic ...