Before sunrise on April 25, a slender waning crescent moon will appear left of Venus and Saturn to create the tilted happy face.

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

Well, in the predawn hours of April 25 it literally will be thanks to a double conjunction that will see Saturn, Venus and ...

Astronomers have found a pair of chunky white dwarf stars—think of them as superdense stellar leftovers—spinning closely ...

Those looking up last night already saw a beautiful show as the near-full moon rose in clear skies. Tonight is slightly ...

Astronomers have identified a binary white dwarf system, located just 150 light-years from Earth, that is expected to end in ...

But when the supernova finally does blow, our planet will likely have been long ago destroyed by the expansion of our own dying sun, and our moon along with it. If we could see it, the explosion ...

A pair of circling white dwarf stars located on our "cosmic doorstep" are doomed to explode in a rare, quadruple supernova that will shine 10 times brighter than the moon in the night sky, a new ...

April's full moon will reach peak illumination at 7:22 p.m. local time on Saturday, April 12. Contrary to its name, the moon will not turn a shade of pink. The name is instead an homage to the ...

When the two dense stellar remnants, known as white dwarfs, finally merge, they will trigger a Type 1a supernova, a powerful thermonuclear explosion that scientists predict will shine nearly ten times ...

University of Warwick astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light ...

Violent supernova explosions have been linked to ... Despite its brightness, outshining even the full Moon from about 500 light years away, it's unlikely to have any significant impact on us ...