Gold, uranium, and other heavy elements on Earth did not form here. They were born in the violent deaths of massive stars and the collisions of neutron stars, traveling across the galaxy before ...

V1674 Herculis was a record-breaker. It erupted in the constellation Hercules on June 12, 2021, and skyrocketed to peak ...

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

Gamma rays are invisible and ultra-powerful forms of light. They are the most energetic source of radiation known in the ...

A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope captured a colorful portrait of a nearby stellar cradle, revealing a wealth of insights about ...

Pablo’s Galaxy existed about three billion years after the Big Bang and lies roughly 11 billion light-years from Earth.

Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...