Chinese astronomers have detected a long-period transient event. The newfound transient, which received designation DART ...

Scientists hope to use a gamma ray telescope to observe a future supernova to help prove the existence of dark matter.

International astronomers have observed an unusual supernova that is poor in metals, providing vital clues about the early ...

If astronomers could catch bursts of gamma rays from supernova explosions that create neutron stars near the Milky Way, the ...

Researchers have documented a rare supernova, 2023ufx, the most metal-poor stellar explosion observed, located in a dwarf ...

When stars explode as supernovas, they can cause serious cosmic carnage. Is Earth in any danger from any nearby stars?

Astronomers have taken the first close-up image of a star beyond our galaxy, and it’s a “monster star” surrounded by a cocoon ...

Stars with masses between 10 and 30 times that of the sun, in their final evolutionary stages, form an iron core that ...

Astronomers have taken a superdetailed, zoomed-in photo of the Large Magellanic Cloud's "behemoth star." The stunning image, ...

The nature of dark matter has puzzled astronomers since discovering that 85% of the universe's matter is invisible through ...

Researchers believe that observing gamma rays from a supernova could confirm the existence of axions, potentially solving the ...