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, ...
"We found something never seen before and, more importantly, entirely unexpected," team leader Simone Scaringi of Durham ...
The central square image, taken with the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, shows shock waves around the dead ...
A white dwarf is creating a shockwave as it travels through the interstellar medium. Similar shockwaves are sometimes seen as ...
Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the night sky and a familiar landmark in the constellation Orion. It has also ...
Scientists reveal how two unstable nuclei trigger neutron star explosions and power intense X-ray bursts across the universe.
Webb telescope discovered a bizarre exoplanet with carbon atmosphere, no hydrogen, orbiting a super-dense spinning star.
In a series of observations that read like science fiction, astronomers now suspect they have watched a star quite literally ...
A team of astronomers believe they've witnessed, for the first time, a star exploding in a mythical "superkilonova." ...