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

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

The Hubble Space Telescope captures the mesmerizing galaxy LEDA 22057, home to a recent supernova explosion, SN 2024PI. This ...

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

The explosion T Corona Borealis is a phenomenon caused by two stars that orbit one another 3,000 light years away ...

"We are excited because this could be related to the drastic ejection of material from the dying star prior to the supernova explosion." While astronomers ... Approximately 2,000 times larger than our ...

Some space images have become timeless icons of our exploration of the cosmos. Take the famous photo of the Pillars of ...

Astronomers have accidently spotted a new type of cosmic explosion called a "millinova" triggered by white dwarfs feeding on ...

The rare cosmic event only occurs with exceptionally large stars between 60 to 150 times the mass of the sun ... are much fainter than the final supernova explosion, meaning it had previously ...

Astronomers have discovered a new class of cosmic explosions, known as 'millinovas,' which are 100 times brighter than the Sun ... form in the violent explosion, called a supernova, of a massive ...