Researchers, including a Rutgers astronomer, reveal new insights into a star's death in its final momentsA team of scientists, including Rutgers-New ...

For decades, physicists have suspected that black holes might not last forever—that at the very end of their lives, they ...

New X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra telescope reveals Cassiopeia A’s chaotic final hours, showing how dying stars collapse and explode.

Gamma ray bursts are the most powerful explosions in the universe, unleashing as much energy as the Sun will in its 10 ...

A distant supernova exposed elements from a star’s core. The result reshapes ideas of how massive stars evolve. According to long-standing theory, stars are built in layers like onions, with each ...

A rare stellar eruption called a recurrent nova is expected to occur in the Northern Crown constellation, offering ...

Some cosmic events could have profoundly altered the lives of our ancient human relatives. Did Neanderthals go extinct, at ...

A single type of exploding star became astronomy’s ultimate measuring stick, helping scientists map the universe with ...

Scientists using the Chandra X-ray telescope have uncovered new details about the famous supernova remnant Cassiopeia A.

A rare kind of white dwarf can escape the galaxy at 1,200 miles per second. New 3D simulations explain the violent supernova chain behind it.

The inside of a star turned on itself before it spectacularly exploded, according to a new study from NASA’s Chandra X-ray ...

Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what ...