One of the brightest stars in the night sky is living on borrowed time, and its eventual death promises to be one of the great spectacles of the cosmos. When the aging red supergiant that marks the ...

When a star reaches its final stages of life, it ends in a bright, powerful explosion called a supernova and scatters ...

One of the most familiar stars in the night sky is also one of the most volatile, and astronomers say it is living on ...

Astronomers watch star explode like never before – and find an entirely new way for them to die - Observations from across ...

Astronomers have linked an X-ray flash discovered by the Einstein Probe to a known type of supernova with unusual features ...

Primordial black holes may occasionally pass through white dwarf stars and trigger enormous Type Ia supernova explosions. Researchers found that these events could explain chemical patterns seen in ...

A collapsing star drives a shock wave out through its own body. The wave reaches the surface and breaks through, dumping ...

Betelgeuse has always been something of a mystery. Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the sky, marking the right ...

These images show the evolution of supernova SN 2026gzf, which was first detected by the Einstein Probe on 21 March 2026. Images taken on 25 March and 3 April 2026 show the supern ...

Artist’s conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk that is wobbling, or precessing, because of the effects of general relativity. Some models of magnetars suggest that high-speed jets ...

Earth is quietly collecting radioactive debris from an ancient stellar explosion as our Solar System drifts through a giant cloud of gas and dust between the stars. Scientists analyzing Antarctic ice ...