In 2014, a NASA telescope observed that the infrared light emitted by a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy gradually grew brighter. The star glowed more intensely with infrared light for around ...

Mira A is in the late stages of its life, a red giant swelling and losing mass as it prepares to fade into a white dwarf. While stars of this type routinely shed material, the sheer scale and symmetry ...

A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a ...

A dazzling new Hubble image peels back the layers of the mysterious Egg Nebula, a rare and fleeting phase in a Sun-like star’s death just 1,000 light-years away. Hidden inside a dense cocoon of dust, ...

LOS ANGELES, CA-British stand-up comedian Paul Chowdhry will tour the United States for the first time in January 2026 with his new show ‘Artificial Indian,’ following years of sold-out arena ...

A 'prelude to a supernova' is how NASA describes this stunning new James Webb Space Telescope image of Wolf-Rayet Star WR 124. Travel 15,000 light years in this zoom-in to see the amazing look. Credit ...

On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried NASA's new exoplanet telescope, Pandora, ...

Daniel Apai is a professor of astronomy, planetary sciences and optical science at the University of Arizona. He receives funding from NASA. Exoplanets are worlds that orbit other stars. They are very ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Exoplanets are worlds that orbit other stars. They are very difficult to observe ...

As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a technosignature. Reading time 3 minutes From the moment astronomers discovered ...