The star, WOH G64, lies inside the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 163,000 light-years from Earth. It is enormous, roughly ...

One of our universe's biggest stars has dramatically turned into a rare, yellow 'hypergiant' star, and astronomers aren't ...

A Northwestern University-led team of astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to discover a former star that ...

Astronomers say one of the universe’s largest stars has dramatically changed since 2014, possibly entering a rare final phase that could end in a spectacular supernova explosion.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the first published detection of a supernova progenitor in galaxy NGC 1637, revealing a red supergiant star before explosion.

Far beyond the Milky Way, in a nearby satellite galaxy, a giant star has been shifting in a way astronomers did not expect.

One of the largest known stars in the universe underwent a dramatic transformation in 2014, new research shows, and may be preparing to explode. A study led by Gonzalo Muñoz-Sanchez at the National ...

For the very first time, astronomers have captured a radio signal emitted by a very specific type of stellar explosion. This unprecedented observation offers us a glimpse into the final moments of ...

A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a ...

Astronomers report a supergiant star in the Andromeda Galaxy, M31-2014-DS1, collapsed directly into a black hole without a supernova, confirming predictions of failed stellar explosions.

A rare gravitationally lensed supernova called SN 2025wny appears in five separate images due to the gravity of two ...

That the universe is expanding has been known for almost a hundred years now, but how fast? The exact rate of that expansion ...