Read full article: Why is there an abandoned missile base in this remote Florida marsh? Artist's concept of a red giant star and white dwarf orbiting one another. When the red giant moves behind the ...

Astronomers have decoded the hidden past of a distant red giant star by listening to tiny vibrations in its light, revealing ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – It’s been a long wait, but it could pay off any day now. Last year, NASA announced an upcoming nova outburst that’s expected to pop off overhead around 3,000 light-years from Earth.

Just a few hundred light years from Earth, a swollen red giant is quietly forcing astronomers to rethink how stars seed the galaxy with the raw materials for planets and life. New observations of the ...

Astronomers have identified a massive red giant star with a newly detected companion that appears to be stirring up trouble in the system, reshaping gas and dust in ways that could end in a dramatic ...