New X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra telescope reveals Cassiopeia A’s chaotic final hours, showing how dying stars collapse and explode.

A distant supernova exposed elements from a star’s core. The result reshapes ideas of how massive stars evolve. According to long-standing theory, stars are built in layers like onions, with each ...

Physicists have long believed that black holes explode at the end of their lives, and that such explosions happen—at ...

Binary star systems are not rare. Neither are systems where one star is a remnant like a white dwarf or neutron star, and its companion is on the main sequence. In those systems, the dense remnant can ...

Gamma ray bursts are the most powerful explosions in the universe, unleashing as much energy as the Sun will in its 10 ...

Researchers, including a Rutgers astronomer, reveal new insights into a star's death in its final momentsA team of scientists, including Rutgers-New ...

UMass Amherst physicists believe such an explosion could occur within the next decade, potentially "revolutionizing physics ...

Physicists may soon witness one of the most spectacular cosmic events: the explosive death of a primordial black hole (PBH).

For decades, physicists have suspected that black holes might not last forever—that at the very end of their lives, they ...

In a recent groundbreaking discovery in astrophysics, astronomers have unveiled the presence of a “ghost star” nestled within ...