Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi's Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have discovered the most energetic cosmic ...

A giant exoplanet is surprisingly chill given how close it is to its red dwarf star — perhaps because the star is so little.

In the heart of distant galaxies, astronomers have witnessed the most violent stellar death throes ever recorded.

TOI-6894 is one such star. Announced Wednesday in a paper for Nature Astronomy, the red dwarf is just 20% the mass of our Sun ...

Scientists have identified a new class of cosmic explosions, dubbed 'extreme nuclear transients' (ENTs), that represent the ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new ultracompact binary of the AM CVn type exhibiting ...

Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole ripping apart and devouring a star in colliding galaxies. It is only the ...

“ENTs are different beasts,” study lead author and astronomer Jason Hinkle explained in an accompanying statement. “Not only ...

The data revealed that gas from HW2's accretion disk is collapsing inward at breakneck speed, feeding the star at an ...

Astronomers from the University of Hawai'i have found the most energetic cosmic explosions yet discovered - massive stars ...

Science teaches us that stars are much larger than planets, but what about large planets that orbit small stars? This is what ...

What lies at the heart of a black hole has puzzled physicists for decades. Now, a team led by physicist Enrico Rinaldi has ...