If you’re an astrophile, you may remember earlier this year reading about a “once-in-a-lifetime” nova outburst that would ...

Optical interferometry has been a long-proven science method that involves using several separate telescopes to act as one ...

A planet swings in front of its star, dimming the starlight we see. Events like these, called transits, provide us with ...

What will look like a new star in the sky will actually be a nova — an exploding star, NASA says. Here's how to see it.

Pulitzer Prize finalist Dave Eggers says scientists are ‘in striking distance’ of finding life on an exoplanet ...

A star in the beautiful constellation of Corona Borealis will explode before September, becoming visible to the naked eye in the northern hemisphere. NASA reports that T Coronae Borealis ...

NASA images: Stars may give a twinkling appearance when spotted with a naked eye from the Earth. Ever wondered what these balls of gas and dust actually look like? NASA's Hubble Space Telescope ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured an incredible image showing “a dense collection of stars near the core of our galaxy, at a distance of about 26,000 light years” from Earth.

The discovery of these planets could indicate that they were formed by the same processes that form stars like our sun. Pictured are a NASA artist's concept of a Jupiter-like rogue planet and a ...

JWST’s images of these far-away star-forming regions showed high resolution and the scientists were able to differentiate ...

NASA has unveiled remarkable images of nebulae, star clusters, and galaxies taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. These visuals enhance our understanding of cosmic phenomena such as star formation ...