IntroductionEarth’s fate rests on a coin flip. In 5 billion years, our sun will balloon into a red giant star. Whether Earth survives is an...

IntroductionOn December 11, 2021, a beam of gamma rays — the most energetic form of light — slammed into NASA’s Swift satellite. Within 120...

A rapidly rotating white dwarf star that contains two opposing hemispheres – one covered by...

IntroductionEvery year, around 1,000 Type Ia supernovas erupt in the sky. These stellar explosions brighten and then fade away in a pattern so repeatable...

A year after its launch, astronomers are revealing the secrets of the universe, as the first scientific results from observations made...

“I have reached a height that I should never, in my wildest dreams, have predicted...

In our galaxy, about half of the stars are standalone, like the sun. The remaining half consists of pairs and multiples of stars that...

A supernova is the cataclysmic explosion of a star. A thermonuclear supernova explosion of a white dwarf is supposed to be the terminal event...

In 2017 using Gaia-ESO Survey, astronomers detected a rare double-binary star system HD74438 in the Vela constellation. Further observation of this quadruple star system...