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

At dusk on a late October night in 1408, something mysterious lit up the skies above China. Ming Dynasty astronomers who ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Which extreme stellar objects could actually support life? In this video, we explore the most bizarre and powerful cosmic bodies—black holes, neutron stars, white dwarfs - and rank them by ...

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 ...

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