Earlier this week, the number of visible sunspots on our home star fell to zero for the first time in 1,335 days. This ...

In the latest footage captured by the James Webb Telescope, a nebula has been revealed surrounding a dying star.

Some of the universe’s most extreme explosions leave behind almost no trace. The original explosion is unseen, but our ...

The last time the sun's face was perfectly spotless was on June 8, 2022, more than 1,355 days earlier. The sun's visible disk has been perfectly free from sunspots for the first time since June 2022, ...

Astronomers have captured the first views of a young sun-like star blowing bubbles, offering a rare glimpse at how our solar ...

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 ...

Fresh observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show how vivid auroras surge through Uranus’s tilted magnetic field ...

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 object with gravity so ​strong not ...

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 ...

A massive star brightened in infrared light, then vanished without exploding. Astronomers uncovered the quiet birth of a black hole.

In A Nutshell A massive star in the Andromeda Galaxy faded by more than 10,000 times over a decade and vanished from view, likely collapsing into a black hole without exploding as a supernova ...

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 ...