One of the strangest galaxies in the neighborhood of the Milky Way has just presented astronomers with a fascinating mystery.

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has helped astronomers better understand the shapes of structures essential ...

21, 2024 — While astronomers have taken about two dozen zoomed-in images of stars in our galaxy ... Observatory's VISTA ... NASA's Hubble Finds That a Black Hole Beam Promotes Stellar Eruptions ...

Our data suggests that it is in a binary with another object, which is likely to be a white dwarf, the stellar core of a dying star." Astronomers have discovered a record-breaking burst of energy ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to determine the mass of white dwarf star LAWD 37. It is "56 percent the mass of our Sun," according to NASA/ESA. Credit: NASA, ESA, P. McGill (Univ.

The star AG Carinae is battling gravity and radiation to prevent self-destruction, surrounded by a vast shell of gas and dust. Its nebula spans about five light-years, roughly the distance to Alpha ...

'Star factory': The star-forming nebula W51 is one of the largest "star factories" in the Milky Way galaxy. Interstellar dust ...

As many as 400 volcanoes are erupting on the surface of Jupiter's innermost moon Io, with virtually every square inch of the ...

Recently, astronomers using NASA’s cutting-edge technology may have discovered the mythical counterpart of black holes: a white hole ... Novae occurs in double-star systems when an aging, swollen star ...