Observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal that Jupiter’s strong magnetic field and the unique properties of its plasma ...

When white dwarfs—the hot remnants of stars like our sun—are orbited closely by another star, they sometimes steal mass away ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its colossal gravity shreds them to pieces. The resulting string of matter ...

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

A close-in exoplanet is triggering stellar flares and self-destructing. This is the first direct evidence of planet-star ...