Carina Nebula shines with white-blue stars | Space photo of the day for Jan. 5, 2026
The Westerlund 2 star cluster is home to some of the Milky Way's brightest stars.
What old, dying stars teach us about axions as a candidate for dark matter
The axion could be a contender to explain the mystery of dark matter.
‘Dracula’s Chivito’ looks stunning in this tasty Christmas photo from the Hubble Telescope
Using the Hubble space telescope, astronomers have imaged "'Dracula’s Chivito" the largest site of planetary birth ever seen.
Planet-eating stars hint at Earth’s ultimate fate
A sampling of aging Sun-like stars demonstrates that they likely eat their closest planets.
Astronomers may have spotted the 1st known ‘superkilonova’ double star explosion
"We do not know with certainty that we found a superkilonova, but the event nevertheless is eye-opening."
Astronomers capture 1st direct images of collisions in a nearby star system: ‘It’s like looking back in time’
"It's like looking back in time in a sense, to that violent period of our solar system when it was less than a billion years old."
Astronomers capture close-up images of nova explosions on 2 dead stars in unprecedented detail
The nova eruptions come about when a white dwarf steals too much matter from a close red giant companion.
57 ways to capture a dying star: Astronomers get a glimpse of what will happen when our sun dies
"With ALMA, we can now see the atmosphere of a dying star with a level of clarity in a similar way to what we do for the sun."
Scientists discover cosmic ‘scar’ in interstellar clouds left by a close shave between our sun and 2 intruder stars
"It’s kind of a jigsaw puzzle where all the different pieces are moving."
Scientists capture 51 images showing exoplanets coming together around other stars: ‘This data set is an astronomical treasure’
The Very Large Telescope's SPHERE instrument captured unprecedented images of 51 dusty rings shaping young planetary systems.