IS this what the end of days looks like after the Sun has swallowed Earth up? Fear not, we’ve got some time to go – ...

"Until now, it was unknown what type of star would remain after the merger." ...

Within the image, thick clouds of cold hydrogen gas arrange themselves into ridges and wispy filaments. The deep red tones ...

Optical proof of a tiny companion orbiting supergiant star Betelgeuse is hard to come by. Hubble just spotted new evidence.

A distant black hole has just put on one of the brightest and most violent shows in the known universe, tearing apart a ...

Using new observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observatories, astronomers tracked the influence of a recently discovered companion star, Siwarha, on the gas around ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory releases its longest-spanning video of X-ray data yet. Credit: NASA / CXC / SAO / Pan-STARRS Astronomers have turned a famous star explosion into a 25‑year time‑lapse, ...

Astronomers have turned a famous star explosion into a 25‑year time‑lapse, using a NASA telescope to watch the superheated gas race through space and slam into its surroundings. The new study using ...

For more than a century, Betelgeuse has looked like a star with a secret. It swells and fades on a six-year rhythm that never quite made sense. The star, about 650 light-years away in space, is old, ...

This image shows the location of Cloud-9, which is 2000 light-years from Earth. The diffuse magenta is radio data from the ground-based Very Large Array (VLA) showing the presence of the cloud. The ...