White Dwarfs
International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected features never…
NASA’s NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) spacecraft re-entered and burned up in Earth’s atmosphere on Friday night, as…
As a distant stargazer and a neighborhood watchdog, NASA's WISE/NEOWISE spacecraft has scanned the sky around us – both far…
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have for the first time directly measured the mass of a single, isolated white…
Types of Stars The universe’s stars range in brightness, size, color, and behavior. Some types change into others very quickly,…
Who among us doesn’t covertly read tabloid headlines when we pass them by? But if you’re really looking for a…
It’s easy to get lost in fantasy worlds through science-fiction movies and novels, but did you know that some of…
Look up at the night sky … do you see it? The stars of the cosmos bursting in magnificent explosions…