A star system in our own galactic neighborhood is poised to put on a show so bright it could briefly rival the planets and ...

Betelgeuse is a massive red star you can see with your own eyes, and one day it will explode as a supernova. It’s huge, ...

Crab Nebula reveals gas from ancient supernova explosion Betelgeuse shows late-stage evolution of a massive star Stellar death spreads elements, triggering new star formation ...

Using the XRISM space telescope, scientists spotted faint emissions of the elements in remnants of the Cassiopeia A supernova ...

The winter sky is dominated by the constellation of Orion, halfway up from the southern horizon. Its two brightest stars - Betelgeuse and Rigel compete for your attention. Add the three stars between ...

Min Read This highly detailed image of the Crab Nebula was assembled by combining data from five telescopes spanning nearly ...

A double explosion, in which a dying star split, then recombined, may be a long-hypothesized but never-before-seen "superkilonova." ...

A massive star may have burst, leaving behind two dense, dead cores, which then collided and caused another explosion ...

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar ...

Bucks County emergency management officials reported that there were injuries, but had yet to say whether there were any fatalities.

XRISM’s high-precision X-ray data revealed unusually strong signatures of chlorine and potassium inside the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant. These levels are far higher than theoretical models ...

The bright binary star system V Sagittae will flare up multiple times before finally going supernova within the next 100 years. When it explodes, it could be visible to the naked eye even in sunlit ...