Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...

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A new study shows how Milky Way chemical tracks emerge from shifting star formation and gas supply, reshaping ideas about the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is one of the most powerful telescopes ever made by NASA till now. It continues to help us set ...

When we talked about searching for life on Europa, we didn't mean making the place a nightmare for arachnophobes.

New observations of a nearby red giant star suggest that a long-standing explanation for how giant stars spread life’s ...

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Red giant stars are known to have stellar winds far more powerful than those of the Sun. It was thought that the light these stars produce powered the winds, pushing grains of dust made up of carbon ...

A double blast of dying stars may be the first observed case of a long-hypothesized, never proven “superkilonova.” Although astronomers are still searching for concrete answers, a study published in ...

The Boston Red Sox have been one of the most active teams in the early going of MLB’s hot stove season. They have already pulled off two meaningful trades for starting pitchers in the last month.

Earth may owe some of its properties to a nearby star that blew up just as the solar system was forming. This pattern, which saw a supernova bubble envelop the sun and shower it with cosmic rays, may ...

Astrophysicists have achieved an eye-opening leap in understanding stellar death, capturing unprecedented, detailed images of two exploding stars that demonstrate these blasts are far more complicated ...