A “disappearing” star in the Andromeda galaxy is the closest and best candidate for a newborn black hole that astronomers have ever seen ...

In a remarkable discovery that’s bound to capture the imagination of space enthusiasts and scientists alike, the star Mira A, ...

As one of Australia’s most celebrated musicians, Tim Rogers concedes he spends an inordinate amount of time worrying about sport.

Their observations of a faint, cool M-dwarf star called LHS 1903 revealed a system with a rocky world at its outer edge. LHS ...

A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover ...

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

In A Nutshell A star 3,260 light-years away dimmed by over 95% for six months, one of the longest stellar blackouts ever ...

Astronomers have watched a dying star fail to explode as a supernova, instead collapsing into a black hole. The remarkable sighting is the most complete observational record ever made of a star's ...

Astronomers have discovered a planetary system that appears to flip one of astronomy's most reliable rules on its head.

A rocky exoplanet in the LHS 1903 system defies planet formation models, hinting that gravitational upheaval reshaped the red dwarf’s four worlds.

New research suggests that the heart of the Milky Way may be dominated by a dense clump of dark matter rather than the ...

Two friends mining at Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State Park during a livestream found a 6.03-carat yellow diamond, which is the fourth-largest yellow diamond and 22nd-largest diamond of any color ...