In a groundbreaking and terrifying announcement, NASA’s Chief Scientist has revealed some alarming news about Betelgeuse, one ...

When huge stars are denied a glorious death, something more brutal occurs, and you get mysterious signals known as fast x-ray transients.

In the first study of its kind, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences (iTHEMS) in Japan, along ...

Scientists have used machine learning to dramatically speed up the processing time when simulating galaxy evolution coupled ...

In October 1604, astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler spotted a new star in the sky and began tracking it. Over the course of several weeks, the star remained visible in the daytime and ...

"This discovery heralds a broader understanding of the diversity in massive stars' deaths and a need for deeper ...

There’s a chance we could see a white dwarf star explosion this year. T Coronae Borealis, a binary star system and recurrent nova located roughly 3,000 light-years from Earth, is expected to erupt ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

A new study of a star undergoing the throes of a supernova death has revealed that bursts of X-radiation known as fast-X-ray ...

Using a combination of telescopes, including the International Gemini Observatory, funded in part by the U.S. National ...

The smoking gun of the creation of lithium in explosions on white dwarf stars may have been found, in a spike of gamma rays ...

Using a combination of telescopes, astronomers have characterized the closest supernova linked to a fast X-ray transient. The ...