Methuselah, located 12,400 light years away in the constellation Scorpio, is one of the most ancient exoplanets ever ...

In October 1604, astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler spotted a new star in the sky and began tracking it. Over the course of several weeks, the star remained visible in the daytime and ...

About 8,150 light-years from Earth, a white dwarf star named Gaia22ayj has intrigued astronomers. Its unusual behavior, ...

Astronomers propose dark dwarfs—objects powered by dark matter annihilation—may exist near the galactic center, offering key clues about WIMPs.

Though the art and architecture of the fair were mostly destroyed, as was intended, its curious cultural legacy was not.

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

There’s a chance we could see a white dwarf star explosion this year. T Coronae Borealis, a binary star system and recurrent nova located roughly 3,000 light-years from Earth, is expected to erupt ...

When white dwarfs—the hot remnants of stars like our Sun—are orbited closely by another star, they sometimes steal mass away ...

Adeptus Titanicus, that game that started it all in 1988. Look at that terrain and infantry advancing across the sands. White ...

Dark matter is one of Nature’s most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to their supercomputer simulations. We know it’s real because its mass ...

"Dark matter could be captured by stars and accumulate inside them. If that happens, it might also interact with itself and ...

Dark dwarfs, stars composed of dark matter, may be the optimal objects in which to finally discover physical dark matter in the real world.