It wasn’t until NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) turned its eye to the scene that the story took an unexpected turn.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures stunning planetary nebulae — colourful cosmic clouds formed by dying stars, showcasing ...

A sudden flash of light in 2020 caught the attention of astronomers scanning the sky. That brief signal, spotted by Caltech’s ...

The swirling, paint-like clouds in the darkness of space in this stunning image seem surreal, like a portal to another world ...

The nearby T Coronae Borealis system could still explode any day now, but calculations suggest the next best chance for fireworks is later this year.

James Webb Space Telescope reveals a planet's death plunge into its star, challenging previous theories and shedding light on how giant planets may spiral inward and perish.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope provided a closer look at the aftermath of a star that wreaked violence on its planet ...

A red giant star and white dwarf orbit each other in this animation of a nova similar to T Coronae Borealis. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center It is difficult to predict the exact date of explosion ...

When looking back at the star in archival data from NASA's NEOWISE mission ... ZTF SLRN-2020 was an evolved sun-like star called a "red giant" that had expanded, in the process engulfing a ...

The stars expand and can engulf nearby planets, effectively incinerating them. In approximately five billion years, Earth’s own sun will turn into a red giant and engulf planets, including our blue ...