Based on the new model, the first of these white dwarf explosions isn’t due for at least 10 1100 years. That’s a 1 followed by 1,100 zeros—a number so big that we don’t have a name for it.

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses.

How light is light? The James Webb Space Telescope has just been able to directly image a planet so light and faint that, in ...

How many Earth-like exoplanets orbit M dwarf stars (Red dwarf stars), which are smaller and cooler than our Sun? This is what ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...