Astronomers have found an Earth-like exoplanet orbiting a distant white dwarf, shedding light on the possible future of our ...

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that stars appear to erupt along the path of a supermassive ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have found that jets emitted from supermassive black holes can trigger explosions in nearby stars, a phenomenon previously ...

The first draft of Rob Grant and Doug Naylor’s science-fiction sitcom Red Dwarf was written in 1983 in a holiday cottage in Wales donated by Doug’s father. This getaway, which ...

For decades, astronomers have seen the "before" and "after" of this process — when a planet is orbiting very close to its ...

The jet in question originates from a supermassive black hole at the galaxy's center, which has a mass 6.5 billion times that ...

A recent study has provided intriguing evidence that dark matter—the mysterious substance making up a significant portion of ...

In a surprise finding, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch-like jet from a supermassive black hole at the core of a huge galaxy seems to cause stars to ...

The first rocky planet ever spotted orbiting a burned out star called a white dwarf offers a glimpse of what may be in store ...

The scientific community has long grappled with the question of whether these stars can support planets capable of sustaining ...

The discovery of an Earth-like planet 4,000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy provides a preview of one possible fate ...

The red giant phase is pretty crazy. The star's outer atmosphere can expand to hundreds of times its initial size; some ...