According to scientists, red supergiant stars should produce more supernovas. But astronomers just aren’t spotting them. Here's how they plan to crack the case.

Nearly 4.5 million years ago, two enormous, blazing stars swung close to the solar system. They did not touch the sun, but they came close enough to leave a permanent mark on the thin mist of gas that ...

Astronomers have created a detailed forecast of where they expect to observe future stellar explosions in a nearby galaxy, opening a new window into how exploding stars shape the cosmos. Focusing on ...

Artist’s conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk that is wobbling, or precessing, because of the effects of general relativity. Some models of magnetars suggest that high-speed jets ...

A team of nuclear physicists has pulled off something that, until recently, existed only in theoretical models and the ...

With the help of an extremely powerful telescope deep underground in Japan, astronomers may be able to catch a glimpse of ghost particles from long-dead stars. When you purchase through links on our ...

Image of the Kinman Dwarf galaxy taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 in 2011, before the disappearance of the massive star. (NASA, ESA / Hubble, J. Andrews, University ...

From a mountaintop in Chile, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is preparing to capture the most detailed, decade-long movie of the night sky ever attempted. With the world’s largest digital camera, the ...

Stephen Reynolds talks about his research in this video by Brantley Atkinson. An advanced satellite telescope launched by NASA is giving N.C. State astrophysicist Stephen Reynolds and other ...

In recent years, whenever astronomers have gazed into the night sky, they’ve noticed something peculiar: Some of its massive stars—the true titans of the cosmos—appear to be missing. The largest of ...