Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

Here are 8 incredibly beautiful and mesmerizing deep space images captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, showcasing the ...

Astronomers from the University of Turku in Finland and elsewhere have performed a broadband spectral and timing study of an ...

In a groundbreaking cosmic revelation, astronomers have captured the first visual evidence of a dying star erupting in a rare ...

Astronomers had long been suspecting that some stars do meet their end of life with a dual detonation and new images prove ...

Studying very luminous stars Previous studies used space- and ground-based telescopes to study these stars in the Tarantula Nebula of the Large Magellanic Cloud for the first time. Several stars at ...

But a rarer kind of supernova involves a different type of star - a stellar ember called a white dwarf - and a double ...

"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

As per a report from Space.com, researchers used sophisticated models and observations to learn that very massive stars give ...

At cosmological scales, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has given scientists an immensely accurate blueprint ...

The search for dark matter requires all the best models, theories, and ideas we can throw at it. A new paper by Julia Monika Koulen, Stefano Profumo, and Nolan Smyth from the University of California ...