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

An international team of researchers has made new observations of an unusual supernova, finding the most metal-poor stellar explosion ever observed.

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

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

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 ...

An international team of researchers has made new observations of an unusual supernova, finding the most metal-poor stellar ...

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

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

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

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 ...