NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has snapped a picture of Cassiopeia A (CasA), a dramatic structure left behind by the death throes of a star that exploded from Earth's perspective about ...

Stars in binaries with black holes usually suffer gruesome fates, but two newly discovered systems hint at a survival mechanism. Death by black hole isn't always inevitable for stars that exist in ...

It turns out you could, sort of, according to NASA engineer Brian Muirhead - and he and his team are doing something a bit like it. To build the Death Star, Darth Vader and company couldn't have ...

Ewan O’Sullivan from the Center For Astrophysics noted that while it is difficult to see if the beams are damaging stars and planets ... ‘Earth is healing’: NASA says 2024 Antarctic Ozone ...

But one such program is a particularly interesting candidate for the chopping block: NASA. For over a decade, Musk’s rocket company, SpaceX, has been the recipient of billions of dollars ...

a star in its final death throes. White dwarfs are some of the densest objects in the universe. According to NASA, the white dwarf`s strong gravity siphons stellar material from its red giant ...

This will create a blast of light that will illuminate a dead binary star system for the first time in 80 years, according to NASA. Back in 1946, astronomers watched as a new star suddenly appeared in ...

The existence of another watery world in the outer solar system may offer clues to how such seas form — and hope for another spot to search for life ...