What we know of the birth of a black hole has traditionally aligned with our perception of black holes themselves: dark, ...

"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of ...

Astronomers report the discovery of a new binary system, designated LAMOST J065816.72+094343.1. The newfound binary consists ...

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the Department of Physics at The University of Hong Kong ...

A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow ...

"We found something never seen before and, more importantly, entirely unexpected," team leader Simone Scaringi of Durham ...

New insights are emerging into one of astronomy’s most perplexing signals. An international research team led in part by ...

An international team of astronomers, including researcher from the Department of Physics at The University of Hong Kong (HKU ...

Artist's impression illustrating a binary-origin scenario for fast radio bursts. A magnetised plasma cloud, generated by a ...

For about three years now, scientists have been anticipating a nova explosion. Specifically, the explosion of the binary star ...

As stars move through space, they push away material and create a so-called bow shock ahead of them akin to a curved ridge of ...

The shockwave - more specifically a bow shock - caused by the white dwarf was observed using the European Southern ...