In our galaxy, a supernova explodes about once or twice each century. But historical astronomical records show that the last ...

It is theoretically possible for a particularly massive star to collapse in on itself to form a black hole rather than ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has picked up the light from a massive star that exploded about a billion years after the ...

NASA and The Hubble Space Telescope has noticed the disappearance of the massive star N6946‑BH1 after it flared to a million ...

Astronomers have discovered the first radio signals from a unique category of dying stars, called Type Ibn supernovae, and these signals offer new insights into how massive stars meet their demise.

Solar storms are eruptions that release some of the energy stored in the sun's strong magnetic field. These can create ...

Whenever we enter Valentine’s season, astronomers are sometimes asked about possible Valentine’s Day stars.  To answer this ...

Optical proof of a tiny companion orbiting supergiant star Betelgeuse is hard to come by. Hubble just spotted new evidence.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lead image: This illustration shows what the luminous blue variable star in the Kinman Dwarf galaxy could have looked like before ...

Everything around us seems to be changing at breakneck speed. Twenty years ago, smartphones were niche products. Twenty years before that, computers were clunky behemoths. Forty years before that, far ...