A distant red giant star is rippling with seismic vibrations, and for the first time, a NASA spacecraft has translated those ...

Hubble’s new image shows the Calabash Nebula’s dying star blasting gas at immense speeds, revealing dramatic lobes, ...

The James Webb captures a more panoramic image of stars and galaxies, spectacular visuals that were missed by most other ...

What happens to planets as their stars age and come closer to death? This is what a recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society hopes to address as a team of ...

The Red Spider Nebula gives us a possible preview of what might happen to our own Sun in about 5 billion years: as the Sun runs out of fuel, it may also swell into a red giant, shed its outer layers, ...

Astronomers have discovered that aging stars may be devouring their closest giant planets as they swell into red giants. Using NASA’s TESS telescope to study nearly half a million stars, scientists ...

The space telescope is peering into our own solar system's future. Anyone hungry for the icy crunch of a Pluto-like body? No? Well, one nearby white dwarf is going all in on a Pluto-esque snack.

The James Webb Space Telescope has identified an original star that caused a supernova for the first time. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Charles Kilpatrick / Aswin Suresh Astronomers say they've ...

"Our scenario describes all the evolutionary phases of the supernova with great precision." An investigation of a cosmic explosion that marked the violent death of a massive star has called into ...

A revolutionary technique developed by an NTID astrophysicist at Rochester Institute of Technology could allow for a better understanding of the fates of solar systems when their stars cease to shine.