Astronomers have strengthened long-standing predictions that massive runaway stars could have originated in binary pairs, and were dramatically ejected into space when their companion stars underwent ...

Astronomers have discovered the first radio signals from a unique category of dying stars, called Type Ibn supernovae, and ...

Astronomers have captured the first radio signals from a rare supernova, revealing intense activity in a star’s final years before it exploded.

About 10,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagitta, a white dwarf is hungrily gobbling up matter from a nearby companion star. The volatile relationship results in incredible fusion-driven ...

A new study suggests that the red supergiant WOH G64, also known as the "behemoth star," has not transitioned into a yellow ...

Astronomers detected radio waves from a rare exploding star, revealing what happens in the final years before a massive star ...

What happens to a large star near the end of its lifetime before it explodes as a supernova? This is what a recent study ...

This artist's impression shows, about 22 million light-years away, the supernova SN 2024ggi exploding in the galaxy NGC 3621. (ESO/L. Calçada via SWNS) By Dean Murray Scientists have revealed for the ...

T Coronae Borealis, a star system 3,000 light-years away, is expected to erupt as a nova in June 2026, briefly becoming ...

This supernova is one for the record books. A mammoth star explosion known as SN2016aps, which occurred in a galaxy about 3.6 billion light-years from Earth, is the brightest supernova ever seen, a ...

A rare supernova let scientists glimpse a star's interior, revealing a dense silicon-sulphur shell and unexpected helium that should have vanished earlier. (Nanowerk News) An exploding star has given ...

Scientists have revealed for the first time a jaw-dropping early view of an exploding supernova. Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed ...