A mobile app lets citizen scientists flag anomalies in space that are hard for computers to detect.

"This discovery heralds a broader understanding of the diversity in massive stars' deaths and a need for deeper investigations into the whole landscape of stellar evolution." ...

When white dwarfs—the hot remnants of stars like our sun—are orbited closely by another star, they sometimes steal mass away ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

The smoking gun of the creation of lithium in explosions on white dwarf stars may have been found, in a spike of gamma rays ...

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

I’ve spent much of my long life studying — and trying to understand — the history of the universe. Along the way, I have been constantly reminded that science is essentially international: Science ...

A university partnership project which has involved members of the public in identifying cosmic explosions has announced its first major ...

How were these atoms made? The surprising answer is that more massive atoms are made in stars. To make atoms with several protons and neutrons stuck together in the nucleus requires the type of ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, and short-lived black hole pulsars.

The planets live a normal rhythm of life, but a Neutron star arrives and decides to tell what's inside it... Welcome to the SpaceBalls channel!