A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms.

Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear destined to die in an extraordinarily violent quadruple detonation. The two ...

When their end comes, the stars will explode in a blast making them around 200,000 times brighter than Jupiter does now.

If it exploded today, this future supernova might be close enough to us to pose a threat, but the Sun will have burned out before it happens.

This April, the skies put on a dazzling show – watch planets like Jupiter, Venus, and Mars glide across morning and evening ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

Experience the magic of double meteor showers against the backdrop of the Milky Way galaxy and stars in the breathtaking Flat Tops Wilderness area of Colorado, USA. While April is typically associated ...

Euclid is on a quest to unravel one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: why it's expanding faster and faster. With help ...

The Lyrids Meteor shower will be visible mid-April between April 17 and 26, peaking on April 21 and 22, according to NASA.

The easiest way to time travel is more simple than you realise - and it doesn't involve any fancy equipment, say scientists.

O n April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope flew aboard space shuttle Discovery, which makes this year the 35th ...

Newly-processed image of Small Magellanic Cloud star cluster shows that this old space telescope can still impress with its pictures ...