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 a superdetailed, zoomed-in photo of the Large Magellanic Cloud's "behemoth star." The stunning image, ...

The nature of dark matter has puzzled astronomers since discovering that 85% of the universe's matter is invisible through ...

When a star dies in a supernova, one possible outcome is for the remains to become a neutron star. Inside a neutron star, the ...

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

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

A test exists for a leading explanation for the nature of dark matter, but it relies on catching a supernova in the moment of ...

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 ...

Massive stars, as they near the end of their lives, undergo dramatic transformations. One of the most striking phases occurs ...

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 ...

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