A burst of light in the deep sky is doing something it should not be able to do. It looks like one supernova, but it shows up ...

"We can study a diverse population of supermassive black holes and their radio jets at different stages of their evolution." ...

Discover how the giant star WOH G64, one of the largest known, transformed in 2014 and might be heading for a supernova.

In A Nutshell A massive star in the Andromeda Galaxy faded by more than 10,000 times over a decade and vanished from view, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has only been researching for three and a half years, but it has already imaged a giant star ...

An international team of scientists led by the Institute of Cosmos Sciences at the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the ...

Several telescopes used to observe the supernova SN Zwicky which was magnified nearly 25 times by a foreground galaxy acting as a lens. Credit: ESA/Hubble, L. Calçada ...

Astronomers have captured the central region of our Milky Way in a striking new image, unveiling a complex network of ...

The supernova is a rare superluminous stellar explosion, 10 billion lightyears away, and far brighter than typical supernovae ...

One of the largest known stars in the universe underwent a dramatic transformation in 2014, new research shows, and may be preparing to explode. A study led by Gonzalo Muñoz-Sanchez at the National ...

A study using the NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other X-ray telescopes has revealed that "an exploded star can pose more risks to nearby planets than previously thought." The Chandra team ...

Astronomers report a supergiant star in the Andromeda Galaxy, M31-2014-DS1, collapsed directly into a black hole without a supernova, confirming predictions of failed stellar explosions.