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.

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than images from ground-based telescopes. In August of that year, Hubble made one of ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

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

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

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 ...