The Sun, our life-giving star, is slowly dying. In about 5 billion years, it will exhaust its fuel and transform into a red giant, altering the solar system forever. But long before that, the Sun’s ...

Astronomers capture first image of a white dwarf exploding twice in space Rare double-detonation seen in supernova remnant ...

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses.

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Emirates Astronomy Society achieves a historic milestone by photographing the Crescent Nebula, 5,000 light-years away, ...

In the official trailer for Project Hail Mary, Ryan Gosling plays a middle school teacher turned astronaut who might be ...

Galaxies shine in a rainbow of emissions from gas, dust, and stars. Each of these building blocks emits light at specific ...

In this video, we explore the fascinating and intense process that CW Leonis is going through as it reaches its death agonies.As a red giant, CW Leonis has expanded to over 1,000 times the size of ...

Scientists observed the red giant star R Doradus with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, or ALMA, in Chile over the course of four weeks in July and August 2023.

Our own Sun will approach its red giant phase some 6 billion years from now, running out of fuel and causing its core to contract. As it approaches death, the Sun will expand and engulf the inner ...

The nebula, 3,400 light-years away in the Perseus constellation, is an expanding shell of gases kicked out by a dying red giant star. The cosmic object is known as a planetary nebula, but it has ...