The shells of carbon-rich dust are expanding outward into space at the breakneck velocity of 1,600 miles per second.

Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS), an international team ...

Astronomers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and ...

This marks the first-ever detection of X-ray spectral lines in a binary black hole system, offering a novel window into the ...

A star system 5,000 light-years from Earth, surrounded by layers of dust, could help scientists better understand the final ...

NASA has identified a rare and unusual "blue lurker" star that was produced during the collapse of a triple-star system in ...

"We have by and large been ignoring triples in models and simulations — we're just starting to understand how these types of ...

Carbon-rich cosmic dust comes from different sources and spreads out into space, where it's necessary for life and for the ...

DF Tau consists of two young stars with nearly equal masses, orbiting each other every 48 years. Since both stars likely ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image peers into the dusty recesses of the nearest massive star-forming region to Earth, ...

Iron Lines in X-ray have been detected from a well-known binary black hole system in the radio galaxy 4C+37.11 750 million light years away from the Earth, making way for study of the properties of ...

The name "blue lurker" might sound like a villainous character from a superhero movie. But it is a rare class of star that ...