Astronomers have discovered a flattened structure of matter around the Milky Way that explains the unusual motion of nearby ...

The Andromeda galaxy (M31) has been captured by the Chandra X-ray Telescope. See the imagery and hear a sonification of it.

Each spring, amateur astronomers attempt the ultimate stargazing challenge—an overnight quest to spot every galaxy, nebula, and star cluster in Charles Messier’s famous catalog. Photographer Alan Dyer ...

An artist's rendition of an imploding star, surrounded by expelled gas and dust shown in red Keith Miller, Caltech / IPAC – SELab Over roughly the past decade, a gleaming star some 2.5 million ...

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 ...

The end of a star’s life can be an extremely violent event. Once it runs out of fuel, its core collapses, and if its original mass is large enough, it can erupt in a supernova, a runaway nuclear ...

Gene Roddenberry gave audiences faith in humanity through his vision of "Star Trek." He made such an impact on several generations that some "Star Trek" legends had their ashes sent into space to ...

Astronomers have caught a massive star in the Andromeda Galaxy quietly dying, collapsing into a black hole without producing a supernova, leaving behind little more than a fading trace. The findings ...

A team of astronomers led by the Flatiron Institute’s Kishalay De discovered that a star in the Andromeda Galaxy disappeared without going supernova, and instead collapsed directly into a black hole.

Astronomers recently watched a massive star die, but fail to explode as a supernova. Instead, it collapsed directly into a black hole, slowly expelling its turbulent outer layers in the process. This ...

Scientists have seen something spectacular unfolding in Andromeda, our neighboring spiral galaxy, located some 2.5 million light-years away from Earth. The spectacular part is actually what they ...

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