Stars with masses between 10 and 30 times that of the sun, in their final evolutionary stages, form an iron core that ...

Astronomers have taken the first close-up image of a star beyond our galaxy, and it’s a “monster star” surrounded by a cocoon ...

Several telescopes used to observe the supernova SN Zwicky which was magnified nearly 25 times by a foreground galaxy acting ...

WOH G64 is what's known as a red giant, a star nearing the end of its life, running out of hydrogen fuel. Through this ...

The star, situated in a galaxy orbiting our own tens of thousands of light-years away, may be on the verge of a spectacular ...

WOH G64 is 2,000 times the size of the sun and is 160,000 light-years distant in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy.

The star, identified as WOH G64, is located 160,000 light-years from us in the Large Magellanic Cloud and is on the verge of ...

Scientists have finally imaged a star outside of the Milky Way for the first time. Here's what it looks like and how they did ...

When stars explode as supernovas, they can cause serious cosmic carnage. Is Earth in any danger from any nearby stars?

While most scientists suggest it is on the verge of exploding as a supernova, a new study reveals an intriguing hypothesis: ...

Scientists have taken a close-up picture of a star apparently in its death throes, surrounded by gas and dust as it heads ...

Astronomers have taken a zoomed-in photo of a star outside the Milky Way for the first time, the European Southern Observatory announced in a statement Thursday.