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

A nearby white dwarf is carving a colourful shockwave through space, puzzling astronomers and raising new questions about how ...

Astronomers at Durham University and collaborators at the University of Warwick used the European Southern Observatory’s Very ...

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

Eutelsat orders 340 OneWeb satellites from Airbus for network renewal, Indian rocket loses control post-launch posing a ...

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

In the shockwave, a red hue represented hydrogen, green represented nitrogen, and blue represented oxygen residing in ...

A research team has successfully imaged a nova in high resolution—and the images suggest that the nova was not a single, impulsive explosion. A nova is an astronomical phenomenon that occurs in a ...

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 ...

Sometimes progress in space science does not arrive with a flash. It comes quietly, through patient observation, and then settles into place. That is .

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