Imagine capturing a portrait of a cosmic giant so massive it could swallow our entire solar system thousands of times over — ...

During previous observations, astronomers appropriately nicknamed WH G64 the “behemoth star," due to it being nearly 2000 ...

Astronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only 3 million years to form - quite swift ...

Astronomers have captured the first-ever close-up image of WOH G64, a colossal red supergiant star located 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Using the Very Large Telescope ...

WOH G64 is what's known as a red giant, a star nearing the end of its life, running out of hydrogen fuel. Through this ...

WOH G64 is 2,000 times the size of the sun and is 160,000 light-years distant in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy.

Like a performer preparing for their big finale, a distant star is shedding its outer layers and preparing to explode as a supernova. Astronomers have been observing the huge star, named WOH G64, ...

In fact, nearly half of all stars similar to our sun have at least one companion star ... a graduate student in the David A.

“For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way,” astrophysicist Keiichi Ohnaka said, according to the European Southern ...

Now, a new study published Nov. 11 in Nature Astronomy has revisited the Voyager 2 data and discovered that Uranus was ...

For the first time, astronomers have captured a close-up image of a dying star beyond our Milky Way. This milestone, achieved by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer ...

Decades-old data from NASA's Voyager 2 has reignited interest in Uranus, revealing new insights that challenge past ...