Utah is in second place after the opening day of the NCAA ski championships thanks to a big performance by Johs Braathen Herland.

Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar—a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star—and confirmed that it's the power source behind some of the brightest exploding stars in the ...

Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in the constellation Orion, has long fascinated astronomers because it is nearing the end of its life. Observations from the Hubble Space Telescope revealed a ...

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

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes, astronomers have traced a short-duration gamma-ray burst event called GRB 230906A to a faint dwarf galaxy embedded in a vast stream of ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of researchers has discovered chemical fingerprints from enormous ...

Gold and platinum are found in space, created when two stars collide. Astrophysicists can even trace this process further back, to the merger of galaxies.

The star’s surface temperatures had increased by more than 1,000 degrees Celsius (1,800 Fahrenheit), turning its signature red color to yellow. It also shrank as a result of becoming hotter, going ...

A star thousands of times larger than the Sun just underwent a dramatic transformation that's a prelude to catastrophe.

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 ...

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