An astrophotographer has captured an extremely rare and "difficult" photo of a solar flare exploding from the sun at the ...

Less than two weeks later, on June 25, reports began to circulate of a second nova blossoming in the southern night sky, this time in the constellation Vela. This nova — later designated V572 Velorum ...

The newly observed binary system features a cataclysmic variable star, designated GOTO0650, which is in a rarely seen late stage of its evolution. This was also the first major discovery for the ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

Astronomers have spotted an alien planet orbiting so closely to its home star, the planet's magnetic field is triggering ...

A dramatic cosmic event, a rare dwarf nova that suddenly brightened by a factor of 2,500, has been discovered with the help ...

A luminous phenomenon surprised residents across the Nordic region on Tuesday night (1st), when a fireball streaked across ...