Ever wondered what it would be like to live near a neutron star or inside a black hole? We’re ranking the most extreme ...

These jets become elusive the farther back in time astronomers try to look because of the so-called cosmic microwave ...

The objects were in the same region of the sky but were 13,000 light-years apart and not related to each other. The details ...

Astronomers discover an unusual neutron star that emits double pulses, challenging theories about stellar remnants.

Russian astronomers have conducted photometric observations of a unique extremely metal-poor luminous blue variable star ...

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

The James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) picture of the month for February 2025 is showing off the power of planet formation.

Thorne-Żytkow objects that we haven't yet seen. There is, however, more to learn about these stars and the cosmos.

Stellar evolution is the process by which stars change over time, leading to the formation of various compact objects such as black holes and neutron stars. These compact objects often interact ...

When supermassive stars reach the end of their lives and explode in a supernova, the remnants form a super-dense object called a neutron star. Pulsars are neutron stars that spin rapidly ...

But astronomers routinely measure the speeds of stellar objects. How they do it, it turns out, is grounded in everyday experience. Ever noticed how the pitch of an ambulance's siren or a train's ...