Don Pettit has been at it again. Not content with dazzling earthlings with incredible photos captured from his current home aboard the International Space Station (ISS), the NASA astronaut has now ...

A new adaptive optics technology is set to transform gravitational-wave detection, allowing LIGO and future observatories like Cosmic Explorer to reach new heights. By correcting mirror distortions, ...

There are plenty of types of stars out there, but one stands out for being just a little weirder than the others. You might even say it's strange. According to a paper from researchers at Guangxi ...

"The diversity of ways that white dwarf stars can blow up is much greater than previously expected." There are a lot of ways ...

An international team of astronomers reports the detection of the first pulsar by the Globular Clusters GMRT Pulsar Search ...

The Einstein Probe was launched in January 2024 to study the high-energy universe, and among its instruments is its ...

Researchers have found that stars in the early universe may have formed from 'fluffy' molecular clouds. Using the ALMA telescope to observe the Small Magellanic Cloud -- whose environment is similar ...

A red supergiant star appears to have changed in just a few years – an astronomical blink of an eye – which suggests it may ...