Astronomers have solved the mystery of a star that has baffled scientists for over a century, finding it is a cannibal white ...

In a significant breakthrough, astronomers have recently discovered a “ghost star” nestled within the remnants of a supernova ...

New X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra telescope reveals Cassiopeia A’s chaotic final hours, showing how dying stars collapse and explode.

This material, says a team led by astrophysicist Steve Schulze of Northwestern University in the US, constitutes the first direct evidence of the theorized concentric shells of different elements that ...

S284p1 sits at the edge of the Milky Way about 15,000 light-years from Earth. As superheated gas falls onto the star, it gets ...

SN2021yfj is a new kind of supernova, challenging our understanding of stellar evolution. Its progenitor lost its outer shells well before the supernova happened and only consisted of its ...

The signal, a gamma ray burst, kept repeating — which has never been seen before, and, according to astronomers, should be ...

A rare supernova let scientists glimpse a star's interior, revealing a dense silicon-sulphur shell and unexpected helium that should have vanished earlier. (Nanowerk News) An exploding star has given ...

Scientists for the first time have spotted the insides of a dying star as it exploded, offering a rare peek into stellar evolution.

The protocol used to find these young supernova explosions could be used on data from the upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory. The early stages of a supernova explosion are revelatory in what they can ...