"A bit like dinosaurs on Earth — they were enormous and primitive. And they had short lives, living for just a quarter of a ...

Two new stars, or nova eruptions, have been resolved in unprecedented detail by six optical telescopes operating in unison as ...

The first pulsar was discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Finding these mysterious signals forever changed astronomy.

While these free events do indeed happen each month, the gathering that's set to sparkle Dec. 20 feels a bit special: It's ...

An international team of astronomers has uncovered the most unmistakable evidence yet that the powerful jets launched by ...

For the first time, scientists have created detailed, 2D maps of the sun's outermost atmosphere. This feat was accomplished ...

Stars form in massive clouds of gas called molecular clouds. As they form, they accrete gas from these clouds, and as the ...

The H.R. MacMillan Space Centre in Vancouver, B.C., is hosting a presentation about Indigenous astronomy titled "Salish Skies ...

“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is ...

Webb traced the light of a dying star, supernova GRB 250314A, from when the universe was only 730 million years old.

Star maps and charts are a mainstay of both amateur and professional sky observers. Whether it's on a simple seasonal map or ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured dramatic helium streams pouring off the super-puff exoplanet ...