The chances of intelligent life emerging in our universe—and in any hypothetical ones beyond it—can be estimated by a new ...

Understanding the life stories of the stars has been one of the great tasks of astronomy during the last hundred years, and astronomers have made remarkable progress in tracking the progression of ...

The star was at the end of its life cycle when it profusely produced and expelled dust into space more than 4.6 billion years ...

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

told ABC7 in a live interview that this "zombie star" explodes in a blaze of light every 80 years or so, due to it sucking the life out of a stellar companion. "This is a star that is dead—it's ...

Some stars may transform into black holes without exploding into supernovae. Now, astronomers have finally spotted it as it happened.

A star that winked out of view could be a “failed supernova,” a stellar explosion that petered out instead of fully detonating, a new study reports. If real, the failed supernova would mark the birth ...

Learn more › Beyond a few bright celestial objects, the rise of light pollution has made it difficult for most people to experience a genuinely starry night sky—and that’s where star ...

Astrophysicists have reconstructed the movement of stars within globular clusters to understand their evolution and origin.

Within hours of his death, millions of people across the world had seen his dead body and the intimate portrait of his troubled life. Even in his death, the star's body could not be laid to rest.

WINSTED – One person was flown by a Life Star helicopter to Bay State Medical Center in Springfield, Mass., after a single-vehicle crash on Route 44, near Danbury Quarter Road, shortly after 8 p ...