Astronomers have captured the first-ever visual evidence of awhite dwarf star exploding twice in a remarkable supernova event. The discovery, made by studying the remnants of supernova SNR 0509-67 ...

Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising ...

Since then, a global hunt has netted 85 fast radio bursts. Most have been ‘one-offs’ but a small fraction are ‘repeaters’ that recur at the same spot in the sky. In 2017, astronomers found a ...

Mother’s Day this coming Sunday, May 13, is a good time to reflect on one of the most famous astronomers in the 20th century, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, nee Cecilia Helena Payne, (1900-1979) who ...