K2-360 is a newly found planetary system with a super-dense planet, likely the core of a former larger world, shaped by dynamic interactions with its companion. An international team of researchers ...

Astronomers have discovered an extremely rare pair of spiraling stars about 150 light-years away, and they are headed on a [… ...

The universe doesn't come with an instruction manual—but if it did, University of Missouri Assistant Professor Charles ...

Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a family of four.

China’s satellite megaconstellation plans could clog low Earth orbit with large spent rocket stages, analysts warn. Those ...

With its origins tracing back to the 1970s, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard the space shuttle Discovery on ...

"When I first spotted this system with a very high total mass on our galactic doorstep, I was immediately excited." ...

A nearby cosmic ticking time bomb has been found! Just 150 light years away, a pair of white dwarf stars are on a death ...

Astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light years away. These two stars are on a collision course to explode as a type 1a supernova, appearing ...

University of Warwick astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light ...

Scientists have found the heaviest known pair of dead stars in our galaxy — a rare system they believe will one day explode ...

Astronomers have long predicted that two orbiting white dwarfs are the cause of most type 1a supernova explosions. While the ...