Researchers locates a star swallowing a nearby planet and initially think that it was because of expansion, but JWST data ...

Astronomers detect rapid X-ray flashes ... where light and other radiation can no longer escape. A small black hole would plunge straight into the event horizon, while a normal star would quickly ...

Skygazers are still waiting for the celestial event of the year, when a dance between two stars 3,000 light-years away ends in a massive explosion and creates a new dazzling temporary "star" in the ...

The star cluster is located in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way galaxy that sits about 199,000 light-years from Earth. Last year, researchers made a startling ...

After being inactive for decades, it suddenly lit up and recently began producing unprecedented flashes of X-ray light. The first ... The matter from a captured star, for example, would be spread ...