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

Casey Reed, courtesy of Penn State; Astronomers may be on the verge of solving the mystery of dark matter by detecting the ...

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

A new study suggests that the next nearby supernova could provide a window into the elusive nature of dark matter.

Researchers at UC Berkeley proposed that axions, hypothetical particles, could be detected shortly after a supernova's gamma ...

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

Astronomers have, for the first time, captured a close-up image of a star in its final stages before a massive supernova ...

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

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 ...