"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of ...

Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you, wait a minute, why are you twinkling so much? Um, guys, that's no ...

It's the last clearly observed supernova in the Milky Way, Gassel said.

A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow ...

Gamma rays are invisible and ultra-powerful forms of light. They are the most energetic source of radiation known in the ...

"This was many times more energetic than any similar event and more than any known explosion powered by the collapse of a ...

Boffins are scratching their heads over another mysterious signal which is believed to have originated from the edge of the ...

A research team from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with domestic and ...

What we know of the birth of a black hole has traditionally aligned with our perception of black holes themselves: dark, ...

Kepler's supernova remnant is extremely exciting for astronomers – a rare example of a supernova for which we have a clear ...

Decades in the making, NASA's X-ray timelapse shows a stellar explosion expanding into space at up to 2% the speed of light.