Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but ...

Enrique Rico Ortega and Sofia Vallecorsa explain how quantum computing will allow physicists to model complex dynamics, from ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

When white dwarfs—the hot remnants of stars like our sun—are orbited closely by another star, they sometimes steal mass away ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star. The planet is orbiting a star whose planet formation ...

New full-dome movies will highlight the July schedule at the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium.

Amazon's massive Prime Day 2025 sale includes budget movie box sets, new steelbooks, complete TV series, and B2G1 free 4K Blu ...