Astronomers have strengthened long-standing predictions that massive runaway stars could have originated in binary pairs, and were dramatically ejected into space when their companion stars underwent ...

An organic molecule called methanimine was found scattered throughout a dense clump of gas and dust 554 light-years away.

Astronomers tracked a star that slowly faded instead of exploding. The quiet disappearance may reveal a hidden way black ...

If confirmed, this disappearing act might provide the closest and best observational evidence for the birth of a black hole ...

Things are much bigger outside the solar system.

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

DS1, collapsed into a black hole without exploding, revealing how stars die in silent “failed supernova” events.

A massive star in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has simply disappeared. Some astronomers believe that it's collapsed in on ...

For decades, astronomers have been watching WOH G64, an enormous heavyweight star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy ...

Since it turned on, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of mysterious red blobs in space. The so-called Little ...

A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.