Astronomers recently peered deep into space and found that an old, faint white dwarf named LSPM J0207+3331, located about 145 ...

A widely recognized and respected astrophysicist will be speaking in Erie on Wednesday as the latest headliner to visit Erie ...

Astronomers using data from the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawaiʻi Island have identified a rare, ancient ...

Neutron stars pack extreme mass into tiny volumes. Scientists explore how compact they can become before collapsing into ...

In approximately 5 billion years, the sun will deplete its hydrogen fuel and collapse under its own gravity, becoming a white ...

When the National Science Foundation announced a competition to fund institutes in astronomy and AI in the summer of 2023, ...

Astronomers found an ancient planetary system being consumed by white dwarf LSPM J0207+3331, hosting the oldest, most ...

The evolution of stars and their interactions with compact objects, such as black holes and neutron stars, remain pivotal in our understanding of the cosmos. Stellar evolution describes the life ...

The Hubble Space Telescope searches the universe to understand how planets, stars, and galaxies form. Recently, it captured this image of a nebula known as GN 04.32.8 within a larger stellar nursery ...

A team of researchers in China have discovered a stunning binary system in which a stellar object known as a pulsar orbited inside the outer layers of its companion star — which it accomplished after ...