Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers have teamed up with citizen scientists to discover a brand-new exploding star that's greedily feeding on a stellar ...

LOS ANGELES - Some might complain over a lack of excitement in our solar system but a recent discovery by MIT astronomers reminds us why we should be grateful for a "boring" location among the stars.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Full GOTO-North node under the skies of La Palma. Within six months, Kilonova Seekers’ over 2,000 volunteers contributed more than ...

Nearly half the stars in our galaxy are solitary like the sun. The other half comprises stars that circle other stars, in pairs and multiples, with orbits so tight that some stellar systems could fit ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered a peculiar cataclysmic variable star. The newly found system, designated SDSS J134441.83+204408.3 (or J1344 for ...

A white dwarf has been cannibalizing a former sun-like star, resulting in their orbits around one another shortening to just 51 minutes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Cataclysmic variables (CVs) are close binary systems in which a white dwarf accretes material from a companion star, typically a low‐mass, main-sequence star. The accretion process, often mediated by ...