Astronomers have discovered the "missing link" connecting the death of sunlike stars to the birth of white dwarf stellar ...

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.

Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?

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

The Universe is a vast, twinkling enigma, teasing us with secrets that feel like they're just out of reach. Scientists at ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have instead ...

The most massive stars, about eight to 12 times heftier than the sun, can explode as supernovae, leading to the most extreme objects in the universe—neutron stars and black holes.

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but ...

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

Could the Universe have been born inside a black hole? This question, raised by a team of scientists, challenges the Big Bang ...