The massive, violent flares are now known to emerge every 100 years—40 to 50 times more often than scientists once believed.

Space can be a wondrous place ... this beautiful Christmas tree-like image of NGC 2264, showcasing not only the stars themselves, but also the gas clouds between them. — Stefanie Waldek NASA ...

When they are formed, neutron stars rotate in space. As they compress and shrink ... Few of the known existing neutron stars are pulsars. Only about 1,000 pulsars are known to exist, though ...

At first glance, the image might look like a rather typical shot from the ISS: You see stars and the curvature of Earth, with a distinct orange glow above our planet's surface. But there's something ...

these stars are bright at the ultraviolet and visible wavelengths to which Hubble is sensitive,” the space agency stated. “Using these data, researchers can measure the ages of NGC 2566’s ...

matched only by another neutron star called PSR J1748–2446." The neutron star was observed using NASA's NICER X-ray telescope ...

Although scientists have only been studying the ... the extensive data collected by space telescopes like Kepler…by observing approximately 56,000 Sun-like stars over a span of four years ...

that can only happen to stars about eight times the mass of our sun. Instead, T Coronae Borealis (also called T CrB) will undergo a nova, an explosion on its surface that flings matter into space ...

Day 17 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: a gathering of ancient stars. The globular cluster NGC 2005, featured in this Hubble image, is located about 750 light-years from the heart of ...

His favorite shot from space is the one of star trails at the top of this story. It’s also the cover of his book. Star trails are long-exposure shots — up to 30 minutes long for Pettit — and ...