"This discovery heralds a broader understanding of the diversity in massive stars' deaths and a need for deeper investigations into the whole landscape of stellar evolution." ...

New research suggests sub-stellar objects called dark dwarfs could glow forever on dark matter energy. Could they reveal secrets about the universe’s hidden mass?

A new study of a star undergoing the throes of a supernova death has revealed that bursts of X-radiation known as fast-X-ray ...

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

Using a combination of telescopes, astronomers have characterized the closest supernova linked to a fast X-ray transient. The ...

The Hubble Space Telescope searches the universe to understand how planets, stars, and galaxies form. Recently, it captured ...

Researchers from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have made significant ...

Astronomers have taken the first ever image that shows what happens when a star explodes twice in a supernova.

Triple Star Systems: A Key to Understanding Stellar Evolution. Triple star systems, though accounting for about 10% of Sun-like stars, remain poorly understood.

Astronomers have discovered a new star that is 30 times larger than the sun and could force a major rethink of stellar evolution theories. The star, designated J0524-0336 and located around 30,000 ...

Astro­physics: Star-child­hood shapes stel­lar evo­lu­tion Date: September 19, 2022 Source: University of Innsbruck Summary: In classical models of stellar evolution, so far little importance ...