Theoretically, Sunbird's tremendous speeds could cut mission times to Mars in half, from seven to eight months to about four.

V664 Cas is a binary system consisting of a white dwarf, a stellar corpse, and a red giant star ... ejected from a star as it exhausted its supply of fuel to sustain nuclear fusion in its core.

When a star comes to the end of its life and dies, it can be an epic and destructive event, throwing out an explosion of heat and light — but it can create stunning new forms as well. A gorgeous new ...

Named Kohoutek 4-55, the nebula was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Planetary nebulae like Kohoutek 4-55 are the ...

This is a huge nuclear ... stars or in nuclear weapons,” said Brian Appelbe, a research fellow from the Centre for Inertial ...