In a recent groundbreaking discovery in astrophysics, astronomers have unveiled the presence of a “ghost star” nestled within ...

A distant supernova exposed elements from a star’s core. The result reshapes ideas of how massive stars evolve. According to long-standing theory, stars are built in layers like onions, with each ...

New X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra telescope reveals Cassiopeia A’s chaotic final hours, showing how dying stars collapse and explode.

Researchers, including a Rutgers astronomer, reveal new insights into a star's death in its final momentsA team of scientists, including Rutgers-New ...

Physicists have long believed that black holes explode at the end of their lives, and that such explosions happen—at ...

Gamma ray bursts are the most powerful explosions in the universe, unleashing as much energy as the Sun will in its 10 ...

Scientists have discovered a greedy white dwarf, located not far from Earth, that is consuming its closest cosmic companion at an unprecedented speed. The study found that this binary star system, ...

For decades, physicists have suspected that black holes might not last forever—that at the very end of their lives, they ...

A white dwarf star, V Sagittae, is consuming its larger twin at an unprecedented rate, causing unusual brightness, according ...

V Sagittae, a binary star system, is exhibiting unprecedented activity - White dwarf in the system is engulfing its companion, causing intense brightness - Potential supernova explosion visible from E ...

Astronomers have uncovered the violent secret of V Sagittae, a white dwarf star consuming its companion in a spectacular ...

Some cosmic events could have profoundly altered the lives of our ancient human relatives. Did Neanderthals go extinct, at ...