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Why are some stars always visible while others come and go with the seasons?
So, why is it that Orion is not always visible in the night sky, and certainly not in the same location month after month, while the Big Dipper always is?
Hubble and NASA space telescopes track 'game-changing' gamma-ray burst back to neutron star collision in 'forbidden' region of the universe
Astronomers have tracked a powerful blast of radiation back to its source, finding a neutron star collision within colliding galaxies.
Astronomers witness colossal supernova explosion create one of the most magnetic stars in the universe for the first time
Astronomers have discovered that the birth of neutron stars with magnetic fields trillions of times stronger than Earth's magnetosphere is the "magic trick" behind superbright supernovas.
A mass stellar migration billions of years ago may have helped life get started on Earth
Our sun and a host of "solar twins" may have migrated away from the core of the Milky Way galaxy together long ago, potentially making the solar system more hospitable to life.
The 'invisible giant' at the heart of our galaxy | Space photo of the day for March 11, 2026
A new image captured by the Very Large Telescope reveals stars and gas orbiting the "invisible giant" at the heart of our galaxy.
This record-breaking quadruple star system is so jam-packed it could fit between Jupiter and our sun
"TIC 120362137 is currently the most compact known 3+1-type quadruple star system."
Could these weird stars just be overgrown planets?
There's a whole slew of objects that astronomers aren't sure whether to classify as "failed stars" or "overgrown planets."
Astronomers just watched a star 1,540 times the size of our sun transform into a hypergiant. Will it go supernova?
One of our universe's biggest stars has dramatically turned into a rare, yellow 'hypergiant' star, and astronomers aren't sure when it will go supernova.
