Stars

Astronomers detect signs of an atmosphere stripped from a planet during a giant impact.

This discovery is an important step for radio astronomy.

The study updates our understanding of the disk.

Hubble takes a closer look at its 31st-anniversary image.

Scientists connect the dots between where planets form and what they’re made of.

White dwarfs can still undergo stable thermonuclear activity.

Understanding the mysterious nature of brown dwarfs.

Perhaps they are everywhere?

‘Disk of the galaxy’ is identified as a region where new stars are born.

More broadly, this result clearly demonstrates that a burst’s duration alone does not uniquely indicate its origin.

They could, for the first time, explore the properties of the dust in central regions of the Galaxy.

The number of black holes is roughly three times larger than expected from the number of stars in the cluster.