For over 30 years, astronomers have relied on Type Ia supernovae to measure the universe’s expansion. These stellar ...

"Even today, our understanding of star formation is still developing; comprehending how stars formed in the earlier universe is even more challenging." ...

Astronomers have studied 3,600 supernovas to discover diversity in exploding white dwarf stars, a vital tool in the ...

New Mexico State University’s Tombaugh Observatory welcomed a crowd of students, faculty, and community members to its open ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...

Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant ...

Astronomers used a 3D global computer model to compare the climates of exoplanets in different stellar and orbital configurations. They found that a planet orbiting a white dwarf star would offer a ...

As civilizations advance, they may need to migrate across the galaxy, and some researchers speculate they could use their own stars as massive engines. New research explores the possibility of a ...

RCW 38 lies approximately 5,500 light-years away in the constellation Vela. Unlike many star clusters that appear as simple ...

Astrophysicists have unearthed a surprising diversity in the ways in which white dwarf stars explode in deep space after ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as ...