Gift your sweetheart a bouquet of brilliant stars this Valentine's Day with a multi-telescope image of a gorgeous nebula.

Astrophysicists have unearthed a surprising diversity in the ways in which white dwarf stars explode in deep space after ...

A bouquet of thousands of stars in bloom has arrived. This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the ...

A new study has unveiled new insights into the effects of massive stars on nearby molecular gas and star formation in the W4 ...

Explore the captivating journey of ancient Greek astronomy in which mythological tales and mathematical precision mix together.

Ejnar Hertzsprung, of Leyden Observatory, for his determination of the distance of the Magellanic Clouds and other pioneering work in stellar astronomy. Prof. Hertzsprang's work is characterised ...

A stunning new discovery reveals that white dwarf stars — once thought to explode in predictable ways — actually detonate through an astonishing variety of mechanisms. From star cannibalism to violent ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as ...

UC Irvine astronomers used a 3D global computer model to compare the climates of exoplanets in different stellar and orbital configurations. They found that a planet orbiting a white dwarf star would ...

Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant planets, suggests a new study.

How does a star’s activity influence exoplanet data obtained by scientists? This is what a recent study published in The ...

Stellar transients and mergers are fascinating phenomena in the universe that occur when stars interact in binary systems. These events can lead to dramatic changes in brightness and can produce a ...