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?

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

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

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

Based on the new model, the first of these white dwarf explosions isn’t due for at least 10 1100 years. That’s a 1 followed by 1,100 zeros—a number so big that we don’t have a name for it ...

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

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

Black holes are invisible, yet they are among the brightest things in the universe. If a star wanders too close to a black hole, it gets torn apart in a fireworks show called a tidal disruption ...