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

Astronomers had long been suspecting that some stars do meet their end of life with a dual detonation and new images prove ...

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Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

In a groundbreaking cosmic revelation, astronomers have captured the first visual evidence of a dying star erupting in a rare ...

European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope took photos a rare supernova roughly 300 years after it happened ...

Pulsars and neutron stars are some of the most fascinating and mysterious objects in the universe. In this video, we explore ...

The team suggests that if there are small mountains on pulsars, China’s FAST (Five- hundred-meter Aperture Spherical ...

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The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses. They definitely exist in East Lansing, Michigan.

Astronomers have discovered the "missing link" connecting the death of sunlike stars to the birth of white dwarf stellar ...