Astronomers from Texas have witnessed the moment a star’s surface is torn apart by a supernova, becoming oblong in the ...

The results indicate that the elements essential for life formed within extreme, highly energetic environments deep inside ...

Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a ...

Observing the Universe often means contemplating phenomena that occurred millions of years ago. But sometimes, the ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope and an array of other instruments, astronomers have probed supernova wreckage in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the galaxy next door.

A supernova is a cataclysmic stellar death that leaves behind a black hole or neutron star. It is the biggest, brightest, and most violent type of explosion scientists have observed in the universe.

A pair of rare, compact white dwarf stars that are set to collide in about 23 billion years have been spotted by researchers at the University of Warwick. After converging, the binary star system will ...

The supernova was the death of a red supergiant star 500 times larger than the sun, in a galaxy just 22 million light-years away. Scientists have captured the moment the shockwave of a supernova ...

Interesting! I didn't realise fusion of Helium could happen at the surface of a star, due to lack of necessary temperature and pressure. I'd been reading about reactions that produce most heavier ...

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical elements, which enriched the universe and allowed the next generations of ...

A long-held dream in astronomy has finally come into reach, and it carries a surprising emotional weight. For years, scientists have imagined watching the Milky Way evolve one star at a time, almost ...