"With ALMA, we can now see the atmosphere of a dying star with a level of clarity in a similar way to what we do for the sun.

An odd star brightened for more than 70 days in 5 B.C.E., according to a Chinese text. The object may have been a comet that ...

Some stars explode into a nova quickly while others can take more than a month. Scientists are only beginning to understand ...

“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is ...

A new explanation for the solar system's radioactive elements suggests Earth-like planets might be found orbiting up to 50 ...

The results indicate that the elements essential for life formed within extreme, highly energetic environments deep inside stars, far removed from the calm conditions required for life itself. The ...

Astronomers detected a powerful cosmic flash from a star that exploded when the universe was just 5% of its current age, 13 ...

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

The JetBlue flight was headed from Cancun to Newark on Oct. 30, when it fell out of the sky for no apparent reason in a ...

Astrophysicists have achieved an eye-opening leap in understanding stellar death, capturing unprecedented, detailed images of ...

A star system in our own galactic neighborhood is poised to put on a show so bright it could briefly rival the planets and ...

Astronomers using the NSF Very Large Array report the first radio detection of a rare Type Ibn supernova, revealing how a massive star lost helium-rich material in the years before its explosion ...