A near-complete census of our interstellar neighborhood hopes to answer how stars, brown dwarfs and rogue planets form ...

Astronomers have discovered the "missing link" connecting the death of sunlike stars to the birth of white dwarf stellar ...

A weird object in the sky that blasted pulses of X-rays and radio waves for two minutes out of every 44 could be a dead star, but it's not one that fits with astronomical theories.

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

In 1408, Chinese astronomers and court officials observed an especially bright object in the sky that appeared for about ten ...

A team of researchers have discovered a binary system in which a pulsar orbited inside the outer layers of its companion star ...

Astronomers have detected a sub-stellar object that used to be a star, after being consumed by its white dwarf companion. An international team including Dr. Rene Breton, a Marie Curie Fellow at The ...

IT is easy to feel like we know nothing about our universe, and unexplained stellar objects are the most puzzling feature of all. It is easy to blame advanced alien civilizations for causing stars ...

In an unprecedented discovery, astronomers have identified a strange object in the Milky Way galaxy. This celestial body, ...

A celestial object some 15,000 light-years away is emitting bright flashes of radio and X-rays that scientists are struggling ...

Even if it wasn't a direct hit, the force was enough so that all NASA could observe was the stellar dust left behind. The irony of an object named C4 being blown to cinders by a massive ejecta ...

Astronomers have detected ASKAP J1832-0911, a unique space object 15,000 light-years away, emitting powerful radio and X-ray bursts every 44 minutes.