"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

The instrument is not yet fully aligned with the Sun, leading to bright glints of sunlight, which are visible to the right of the Sun’s location on the image. Credit: NASA NASA’s PUNCH mission just ...

In the years since, Hubble has gathered more than 1.6 million observations and 430 terabytes of data. The telescope has ...

This gas needs an enormous amount of energy to shine — more than normal stars can supply. The discovery, based on data from ...

In celebration of the 35th anniversary of the legendary space telescope’s launch, here are 35 of our favorite images it has ...

Nasa tracks runaway ‘zombie star’ capable of ripping humans apart - Astronomers say the extreme magnetic field of Magnetar ...

The once-in-a-lifetime explosion of T Coronae Borealis ... MORE: This is how close NASA's Parker Solar Probe will fly by the sun The last recorded outburst was in 1946. When it explodes, it ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed a close flyby of the Sun on March 22, travelling at 692,000 kilometres per hour and approaching within 6.1 million kilometres of the solar surface.

That is, this NASA sun-studying mission, named PUNCH, is technically made up of four small satellites that are strategically distributed in our planet's orbit. The quartet is designed, however ...

T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), also known as the Blaze Star, is a binary star system located 3,000 light-years from Earth. It periodically explodes in a recurring nova every 79 years or so, and it’s due ...

An artist’s concept shows the four satellites of NASA’s PUNCH mission observing the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona. Credit: Southwest Research Institute NASA’s new PUNCH mission just opened its ...

The nearby T Coronae Borealis system could still explode any day now, but calculations suggest the next best chance for fireworks is later this year.