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 ...

“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 ...

"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.

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

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 ...

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

In a recent broadcast of his BBC Radio 2 show, Scott Mills was joined on air by a listener for a bash at The Birthday Game, ...

A nova is a massive, temporary star explosion caused when a dense white dwarf star pulls material from a nearby star, setting ...

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 ...