Astronomers have identified a tightly bound pair of stars that are spiraling toward a catastrophic merger, turning a distant ...
Imagine watching a massive star that's been burning steadily for millions of years suddenly dim, fluctuate, and then vanish ...
In an advance that could mark a turning point in the understanding of the universe, a research team from the University of ...
MIT astronomers utilized a space-based X-ray telescope to delineate critical features within a star system’s innermost region ...
Photo: Undergraduates, including Space Physics student Ari Chai and Aerospace Engineering student Ambroise Juston, are ...
Nowadays, scientists armed with sophisticated telescopes witness many supernovas every year, but they have all been distant ...
A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.
"If you were able to stand somewhat close to the white dwarf's pole, you would see a column of gas stretching 2,000 miles ...
The two stars in the nearby system ZTF J2130 are spiraling toward a catastrophic supernova. In the meantime, scientists are ...