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Stars live longer, stranger lives after nearly being swallowed by a black holeA new study shows survivor stars can live billions of years longer than normal, carrying chemical fingerprints of their violent encounters with the Milky Way's black hole.
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See the moon, Venus and Regulus in a rare triple conjunction tomorrowWatch the crescent moon, Venus and the bright star Regulus align in a rare predawn close conjunction tomorrow.
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James Webb telescope finds a warped 'Butterfly Star' shedding its chrysalis — Space photo of the weekThe James Webb Space Telescope has snapped a new view of a planet-forming disk within the Taurus star-forming region.
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Scientists may finally know why the first stars in the universe left no traceThe very first stars in the universe may have been much smaller than scientists thought — potentially explaining why we can't find evidence of them today.
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Scientists just recreated the universe's first ever molecules — and the results challenge our understanding of the early cosmosIn a first, scientists have recreated the formation of the first ever molecules in the universe to learn more about early star formation.
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NASA unveils 9 stunning snapshots of the cosmos in X-ray vision: Space photo of the weekScientists have released nine dazzling images from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, blending data with the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes to reveal black holes, star clusters and distant galaxies like never before.
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Astronomers witness a newborn planet emerging from the dust around a sun-like star: Space photo of the weekThe Very Large Telescope in Chile has found, for the first time, an infant planet nestled in spiral arms of dust around a distant sun-like star.
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Scientists detect gargantuan 'pimple' that has plagued a star for at least 7 yearsA transiting exoplanet has revealed a huge "spot" near the pole of its tiny M-dwarf parent star. The spot has been around at least 7 years and occupies 7% of the sun's surface.
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Scientists find best evidence that Betelgeuse has a secret companion starAstronomers have used a novel technique to find evidence of a secret "buddy" star orbiting Betelgeuse, one of the brightest objects in the night sky — but this sun-size companion may not survive for long.
