Astronomers have witnessed one of our universe's biggest stars transforming into a rare stellar body, and the dramatic metamorphosis may be the prequel to a powerful supernova explosion that sees this ...

A rare gravitationally lensed supernova called SN 2025wny appears in five separate images due to the gravity of two ...

A Northwestern University-led team of astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to discover a former star that ...

Today, the U.S. Postal Service released new Priority Mail and Priority Mail Express stamps featuring breathtaking images captured by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) James ...

One of the largest known stars in the universe underwent a dramatic transformation in 2014, new research shows, and may be preparing to explode. A study led by Gonzalo Muñoz-Sanchez at the National ...

Astronomers tracking the giant star WOH G64, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud roughly 160,000 light-years from Earth, have detected a series of physical changes so dramatic that some researchers ...

Tonight, look up as the Moon meets the Pleiades in Taurus, a constellation packed with star clusters. Know about scientific significance of the constellation Taurus along with when and where this ...

A massive star roughly 2.5 million light-years away in the Andromeda Galaxy has quietly disappeared, and the best explanation is that it collapsed directly into a black hole without producing a ...

The contest was held to mark the 10th anniversary of the park being named as an International Dark Sky Reserve.

A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a ...

In my January 23, 2026, “The Universe” column, I wrote about some of the biggest bangs the universe has to offer: exploding stars, hiccupping magnetars, stellar disruptions and colliding black holes.

WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The formation of a black hole can be quite a violent event, with a massive dying star blowing up and some of its remnants collapsing to form an exceptionally dense ...