Credit: NASA/ESA/James Webb Space Telescope ... from which the Solar System evolved. Stars are classified according to many factors, including their color, temperature, brightness, chemistry ...

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have uncovered the likely cause behind a mysterious fracture in one of ...

Over the past 15 years, astronomers have identified about 500 planets around distant stars, and are now closing ... Esposito began his space science career with NASA’s Pioneer Venus missions ...

Neutron stars are some of the weirdest cosmic objects, and the greatest mysteries lie deep in their hearts.

You might owe that gold necklace around your neck to a moody, long-dead star from the universe’s ancient past. According to a ...

"The simultaneous detection in 2017 of gravitational waves by LIGO and a gamma-ray burst by NASA satellites from the same cosmic source marked the first time a binary neutron star merger was ...

Astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes thanks to data from NASA's NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) and other missions.

NASA scientists are tracking a star which is so powerful it would rip a human apart if they came within 600 miles - and they don’t know where it came from. The neutron star is so rare it is ...