Neutrinos are cosmic tricksters, paradoxically hardly there but lethal to stars significantly more massive than the sun.

A new study of a star undergoing the throes of a supernova death has revealed that bursts of X-radiation known as fast-X-ray ...

Low-mass stars like our Sun expel their outer layers as a planetary nebula because of what is going on in the star’s core as it ages.

Astronomers have traced a mysterious blast of X-rays to a star that, like a cosmic action hero, just refused to die.

FXTs are failed gamma-ray bursts, the last signals from dying stars. A decades-long mystery now reveals stellar death is more ...

Neutrinos are cosmic tricksters, paradoxically hardly there but lethal to stars significantly more massive than the sun.

The question of where atoms come from requires a lot of physics to be answered completely – and even then, physicists only have good guesses to explain how some atoms are formed.

About 8,150 light-years from Earth, a white dwarf star named Gaia22ayj has intrigued astronomers. Its unusual behavior, ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

The smoking gun of the creation of lithium in explosions on white dwarf stars may have been found, in a spike of gamma rays ...

Two international teams zoned in on a potential answer to a decades-long mystery surrounding ephemeral cosmic X-rays.