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Astronomers found a binary star system that may have formed when a wandering star fell into the gravity of its partner.
V1674 Hercules is the fastest nova ever discovered, but new research reveals strange new details about this explosive event driven by a feeding white dwarf.
Watch the sun set from a particularly dark patch of Earth and you may spot a triangle of what scientists call zodiacal light extending from where our star passed below the horizon.
Scientists have gotten a close look at an extreme case of seasons, thanks to a retired NASA telescope.
Stellar groupings orbiting the outskirts of the Milky Way shed new light on the elusive dark matter surrounding our galaxy.
A rare type of white dwarf star has been erupting in the most extreme superflares of its kind ever seen, researchers find in a new study.
Astronomers have spotted the brightest ever 'Ccow' supernova shining in x-rays providing evidence the mysterious phenomenon might be driven by an emerging black hole or a neutron star.
Earth is surrounded by a vast bubble about 1,000 light-years wide whose borders drive the formation of all nearby young stars, a new study finds.
