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 ...
Ancient ‘white dwarf’ stars explode and die in more ways than was thought, and observing these violent cosmic deaths could help scientists to discover the invisible ‘dark energy’ that is powering the ...
Astrophysicists have unearthed a surprising diversity in the ways in which white dwarf stars explode in deep space after assessing almost 4,000 such events captured in detail by a next-gen ...
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...
The zodiacal light shines in the evening as the Moon reaches Last Quarter and skims past Spica and Antares in the sky this ...
Love Island's Laura Anderson stayed overnight at a luxury Loch Lomond hotel with her Scots footballer boyfriend Clark ...
From supermoons to a total eclipse to the national park’s biggest and best-attended star parties, these are the must-see celestial shows of the year ...
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as captured by ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), ...
Fast-moving stars zooming through our galaxy might have been slingshotted from a black hole inside the neighbouring Large ...