The first ever recorded 'planet with a death wish' orbits so close to its host star that it triggers huge flares of radiation ...

Learn more about WASP-121b, the exoplanet so hot it could vaporize iron.

Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...

Scientists at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have tracked the first-ever visual proof of double detonations in white ...

Astronomers have uncovered a remarkable cosmic relic - a galaxy named KiDS J0842+0059, located three billion light-years from ...

Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic evidence, captured using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, witnessed a star meeting a dramatic end by exploding twice. In a study published in ...

MUSE allows astronomers to map the distribution of different chemical elements, displayed here in different colours. Calcium is shown in blue, and it is arranged in two concentric shells. These two ...

To commemorate its achievements, MSFC will host a free public celebration on Saturday, July 19, at The Orion Amphitheater.

The Keck Observatory and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope may have uncovered a "potential three-body system in the Kuiper Belt," ...

L3Harris in Rochester played a pivotal role in building the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s massive secondary mirror, now part of the world’s most advanced sky-survey telescope.

More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...