The largest and brightest is an enormous supergiant star about 100 times the mass of the Sun and five million times brighter.

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

(Web Desk) - Two new stars have suddenly appeared in the night sky, caused by some of the most powerful explosions in the ...

Galaxies have an overall internal motion called disk velocity. It’s how gas, dust, and stars move around the galactic center.

The "new stars" are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere, but people have spotted them from the United States by looking ...

Astronomers have captured the first-ever visual evidence of awhite dwarf star exploding twice in a remarkable supernova event ...

Researchers have used machine learning to dramatically speed up the processing time when simulating galaxy evolution coupled with supernova explosion. This approach could help us understand the ...

Comet or asteroid heading for the Sun is only the third time an interstellar object has been spotted inside our group of ...

Less than two weeks later, on June 25, reports began to circulate of a second nova blossoming in the southern night sky, this time in the constellation Vela. This nova — later designated V572 Velorum ...

The newly observed binary system features a cataclysmic variable star, designated GOTO0650, which is in a rarely seen late stage of its evolution. This was also the first major discovery for the ...

According to a fairly new theory, white dwarfs can explode twice in a row in certain circumstances. For the first time, we ...

But a rarer kind of supernova involves a different type of star - a stellar ember called a white dwarf - and a double ...