The light did not fade the way it was supposed to. After blazing into view about a billion light-years from Earth, the ...

Superluminous supernovas are the brightest stellar explosions in the universe. Astronomers may have found a mechanism that ...

When we see a nova, we aren’t just looking at one star; we are looking at a high-stakes celestial robbery. These events occur in interacting binaries, where a tiny, incredibly dense white dwarf (about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This combined image shows Pa 30, a unique stellar remnant in the constellation Cassiopeia. (Credit: NASA/CXC) It's never too late ...

It's never too late to solve a cold case. A new paper from Syracuse University researchers proposes an explanation for both a mysterious stellar object discovered in the year 2013 and an astronomical ...