Using new observations from the Hubble Space Telescope and observatories on Earth, scientists have confirmed the existence of ...
Astronomers have uncovered the long-hidden cause behind Betelgeuse’s strange behavior: a small companion star carving a visible wake through the giant’s vast atmosphere. Using nearly eight years of ...
New observations of a nearby red giant star suggest that a long-standing explanation for how giant stars spread life’s ...
New telescope instruments now reveal distant galaxies in detail, reshaping how astronomers map dark matter, star formation, ...
Webb reveals a bridge of stars linking two nearby dwarf galaxies, offering a look at how gravity reshapes galaxies and sparks ...
Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the night sky and a familiar landmark in the constellation Orion. It has also ...
Coiled and snakelike, a set of four identical shells surrounds a violent stellar dance 8,000 light-years from Earth. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope delivered a mid-infrared image showing shells of ...