The Hubble Space Telescope reveals how color filters tease out the life cycles of stars in spiral galaxy NGC 6000 — while a ...

Researchers have identified a massive red supergiant on the brink of supernova in images from the James Webb Space Telescope, ...

A red supergiant star transitions into a type II supernova in this animation. Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko | mash mix by Space.com's Steve Spaleta ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The insides of a star are on full display thanks to an explosion. New research published this month in Nature is revealing the details of a star’s core. “This is the first time we have ...

Beryllium-10 spike in Pacific sediments hints at nearby supernova 10 million years ago, revealing cosmic impacts on Earth’s ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a surprising asteroid trail while observing a distant spiral galaxy 102 million ...

An unexpected deep-sea deposit may be the smoking gun from a nearby star that exploded as a supernova in the relatively recent past.

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, B. Frye (University of Arizona), R. Windhorst (Arizona State University), S. Cohen (Arizona State University), J. D’Silva (University of ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

You might think of a star as a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace where hydrogen is turned into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees. But researchers recently reported that ...

An artist's illustration of two neutron stars merging, creating a gamma-ray burst - Copyright POOL/AFP/File Yuichi YAMAZAKI An artist's illustration of two neutron ...

The absence of observed supernovae in the Milky Way for 400 years refers to visual observations within the galaxy itself, excluding events in other galaxies like the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).