A new paper published in Nature Communications could put scientists on the path to understanding one of the wildest, hottest, ...

"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 ...

A nested series of dusty spirals is captured swirling around a mighty triple star system containing two of the rarest stars ...

Pulsars are a special type of neutron star that pulses (hence the name), and these neutron stars likely form as the end ...

Science popularizer Angel Molina, an expert in astronomy and astrophotography, explained on his TikTok channel what a ...

The trip took place in July 2024 and took 6 days. Over that time, the flying observatory looked at two main sources: the Crab ...

A physicist with a penchant for the morbid and a writer with a taste for the macabre have looked at the gruesome science ...

Astronomers have witnessed a massive star's explosive death, a supernova, for the first time in its early stages. Observed by ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have captured the first moments of a dying star. The event was witnessed using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in ...

Scientists have observed for the first time the very early stages of a supernova, with a massive star exploding in a distinctive olive-like shape. The researchers used the European Southern ...

For the first time, scientists determined the shape of a supernova's shock front as it burst through the surface of a dying star. Spotted erupting exceptionally early in April 2024 from 23.6 million ...

For the first time, astronomers unveiled the shape of a supernova at its earliest stage.