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

Astronomers report the discovery of a new binary system, designated LAMOST J065816.72+094343.1. The newfound binary consists ...

A dead star 730 light years away appears to be forming a powerful structure around itself — and despite their best efforts, ...

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

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

A team of astronomers believe they've witnessed, for the first time, a star exploding in a mythical "superkilonova." ...

Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the night sky and a familiar landmark in the constellation Orion. It has also ...

Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the ...

New high-resolution images show that novae are anything but simple stellar fireworks. One exploded with multiple gas streams ...

In a series of observations that read like science fiction, astronomers now suspect they have watched a star quite literally ...

NASA has released a decades-long video showing Kepler’s supernova remnant evolving in X-rays, using Chandra Observatory data ...

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