Nasa has photographed what could be the most powerful supernova ever discovered. The massive gamma-ray burst was the brightest and longest ever rec...
A shortened life may be the price of fame on the stage, screen and sports field, new research suggests. Actors, singers, musicians and dancers, as ...
Small stars may grow into giants by 'feeding' off a group of older stars, according to new research. The theory may help to explain how stars up to...
Small stars may grow into giants by 'feeding' off a group of older stars, according to new research. The theory may help to explain how stars up to...
Astronomers have found an astonishing star and black hole in deep space which orbit each other every 2 hours. Known as a black hole X-ray binary sy...
Astronomers have found the third closest star system to our own - the nearest in almost a century. The snappily named system - official moniker WIS...
Astronomers have announced that an Earth-like planet could exist as close as 13 light years to Earth. Yes, that's still about 76 million million mi...
More than 1400 years ago the star GK Persei exploded in a dramatic and massive supernova which - at the time - was the largest on record. And, in 1...
Nasa has captured the stunning death of a star - and the birth of the new one - in a single photograph. The photo depicts an enormous gas cloud, th...
An incredible photo of a pulsing, dying red star has revealed strange 3D 'spirals' around its centre. The scientists at the Atacama Large Millimete...
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The winners for this year's Astronomy Photographer Of The Year competition at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich have been revealed. The photos sho...
And the award for most romantic wedding picture goes to... *imitates drum roll by banging on desk* Shirley and Warren Andrews, the newlyweds wh...
The shortlist for this year's Astronomy Photographer Of The Year competition at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich has been revealed. The stunning ...
The first evidence of a star gobbling up a planet has been found by a team of international astronomers. The unlucky planet was devoured by a star ...
The Milky Way's 100 billion planets are this week illustrated to show just how common planets are. If you have a hard time imagining planets outside o...
The UK's night skies are still "saturated" with light pollution, campaigners warned on Wednesday, after a survey suggested half the population cannot ...
Around one billion stars in the Milky Way can be seen together for the first time in an image captured over a decade by astronomers. Scientists pro...
Could the Death Star* actually destroy a planet? Three astronomy students from the University of Leicester have set out to answer that decades-old que...
Professor Stephen Hawking told listeners of BBC Today programme that he thought humans would almost definitely colonise Mars, but he warned against en...
The "super massive" black hole at the centre of our galaxy is luring its prey steadily towards, and we can witness it for the first time ever. The...
Imagine having your life force slowly sucked out of you by a close lingering companion who just won't leave you alone. A "vampire" star has been d...
An unusual double-end gamma ray explosion has left scientists stumped. The gamma ray explosion, which was spotted on Christmas day 2010, was cause...
