In new observations from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, scientists have spotted a third gas cloud joining the already known gas clouds G1 and G2. The new one is called G2t, ...

A new image captured by the Very Large Telescope reveals stars and gas orbiting the "invisible giant" at the heart of our galaxy.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of researchers has discovered chemical fingerprints from enormous ...

The catastrophic collision of a black hole and a neutron star sent ripples across the universe. New analysis of those ripples could upend a major theory about how these extreme pairs form. When you ...

Neutrinos live in a lonely universe. Every second, millions of them pass through our planet, but they so rarely interact with other matter that they don’t leave much of a trace. The highest-energy of ...

Star, named WOH G64, is 28 times the mass of the sunIt resides in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxyThe star was observed evolving from red to yellowWASHINGTON, March 2 — ...

One of the largest known stars in the cosmos is poised for catastrophe. After witnessing the massive object undergo a ...

The star, WOH G64, lies inside the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 163,000 light-years from Earth. It is enormous, roughly ...

Astronomers have witnessed one of our universe’s biggest stars transforming into a rare stellar body, and the dramatic ...

Astronomers have witnessed one of our universe’s biggest stars transforming into a rare stellar body, and the dramatic metamorphosis may be the prequel to a powerful supernova explosion that sees this ...

Astronomers report the rapid transition of WOH G64 from a red supergiant to a yellow hypergiant, based on photometric and spectroscopic observations published in Nature Astronomy.

Far beyond the Milky Way, in a nearby satellite galaxy, a giant star has been shifting in a way astronomers did not expect.