This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding a massive star—at least 30 times the mass of our Sun—to pieces. Scientists propose this is what happened around the ...

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Supernova remnants, stellar nurseries and more populate the new edge-on view of the Milky Way as seen from Earth’s southern hemisphere.

An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of ...

A ‘superflare’ 10 trillion times brighter than the Sun is confirmed as the record-holder for both luminosity and distance.

Is there anything more dramatic than an exploding star? More than just extraordinarily bright, energetic events that can ...

But most of the gold on Earth isn’t in our hands; it’s deep underground. During the planet’s formation, heavy elements like ...

Astronomers observe Type II supernova SN 2024bch behaving differently, with energy from Bowen fluorescence rather than ejecta interaction, challenging models of stellar death and high-energy neutrino ...

An ominous-looking nebula named NGC 246 lurks in the constellation Cetus about 1,600 light-years away from Earth. It is ...

This revelation means scientists might have to rethink Type II supernova models, which would result in some of these cosmic ...

T CrB is a binary star system known for its predictable, though slightly irregular, eruptions, with historical records dating ...