Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes ...

Coiled and snakelike, a set of four identical shells surrounds a violent stellar dance 8,000 light-years from Earth.

A peculiar celestial couple has been identified about 3,800 light-years away, in the constellation Centaurus. Designated Gaia ...

Turns out the deaths of massive stars may be messier than scientists long believed. In A Nutshell What happened: Astronomers ...

“The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has not only the capability to destroy stars but it can also ...

"Why are we here?" is humanity's most fundamental and persistent question. Tracing the origins of the elements is a direct ...

The Cassiopeia A supernova remnant reveals that massive exploding stars can forge far more of life's essential ingredients ...

The results indicate that the elements essential for life formed within extreme, highly energetic environments deep inside ...

Whether it happened among distant stars, in Earth’s ancient past, or just recently, Slovak scientists continue to explore new ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have uncovered a ...