JWST explores Westerlund 1, revealing key stellar details New images shed light on planet formation in star clusters Brown ...

"An M dwarf alone couldn't generate the amount of energy we're seeing. Our data suggests that it is in a binary with another ...

One audacious solution is transforming a star into a colossal engine, propelling it across the galaxy to a new, vibrant ...

A new paper suggests alien civilizations could travel the cosmos feeding on stars, and how we could detect them.

The James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) captured imagery of a pair of stars called Wolf-Rayet 140.

To explore the galaxy and hunt for resources, intelligent aliens might need to turn their home stars into natural spaceships, ...

In 1936 astronomers watched as FU Orionis, a dim star in the Orion constellation, brightened dramatically. The star’s ...

The number of pulsars discovered by China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope has exceeded 1,000, ...

What can binary stars comprised of two different types of stars teach astronomers about stellar evolution? This is what a ...

Instead of high-tech spacecrafts, are intelligent aliens using stars to travel around the galaxy? That's what a new research ...

Astronomers from China and South Korea report the detection of a contact binary system with an extremely low mass ratio of only 0.0356. The newfound system, which received the designation TYC ...

The Japan-led XRISM observatory has captured the most detailed portrait yet of gases flowing within Cygnus X-3, one of the most studied sources in the X-ray sky.