This butterfly shaped nebula is the perfect target for the James Webb Space Telescope to learn more about star formation.

Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

A decade-long radio mystery has finally been solved: astronomers have linked repeating pulses to a white dwarf and red dwarf ...

Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it ...

Pictures may enliven us, but other data, such as information about magnetic fields, add a huge amount to our understanding of ...

Red dwarfs are the most common type of star in the cosmos. The two stars, known collectively as ILTJ1101, are orbiting each other so closely that their magnetic fields interact, emitting what’s ...

Small stars that are far away tend to be faint and hard to see. De Ruiter and her colleagues used the Multiple Mirror ...

In 2015, astrophysicists discovered a system consisting of two compact stars orbiting each other: a pulsar (i.e., a highly ...

Radio astronomers have discovered an unusual phenomenon in recent years. They detected radio pulses from the Milky Way that last from seconds to minutes. These pulses differ from those produced by ...

When these stars dance, they make their own music. Astronomers have tracked down the source of a mysterious radio signal from ...

An international team of astrophysicists led by the Netherlands and the UK have discovered that radio pulses lasting seconds ...