A dramatic supermoon alongside the Perseid meteor shower lit up the clear night sky across the world this weekend, much to the delight of astronomers and amateur star gazers.
A team of astronomers have identified a faint white dwarf star that is sufficiently cool for its carbon to have crystalised into one huge diamond.
The search for extraterrestrial life has been given a boost by a new tool that can better detect methane on planets outside our solar system.
NASA and the European Space Agency have released a breathtaking time-lapse video of a red star exploding in our galaxy 20,000 light years away.
A hybrid star known as a Thorne-Żytkow object has been discovered for the first time, with the study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters.