The fastest-spinning white dwarf ever discovered is a shrinking cosmic vampire feasting on a stellar companion. A feeding ...

C.E, Chinese astronomers spotted a supernova and dubbed it the "guest star." The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in ...

Scientists have discovered an exciting new way to uncover how stars are formed by studying their spectacular deaths. Using ...

Within seconds, the star is violently blown apart, hurling stellar debris into space at speeds thousands of times faster than the most powerful rocket ever built. This is a supernova explosion.

NASA welcomed the new year by releasing a series of 19 gorgeous images of spiral galaxies. Combining data from the JWST’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIR-Cam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) with visible ...

Sherwood Richers joined the UT faculty in 2023, where he is currently teaching courses in undergraduate astronomy and general ...

Observations of VFTS 243 provide evidence that black holes can form directly from the collapse of massive stars, without a ...

South Africa and the US – to track the supernova. They found that the first time it appeared, its light was being produced by slow-moving shells of material colliding near the star. When it ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features the galaxy LEDA 22057, which is located about 650 million ...

Revised data shows G278.94+1.35, a supernova remnant, is closer to Earth at 3,300 light years with smaller dimensions ...