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

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 ...

Scientists have revealed for the first time a jaw-dropping early view of an exploding supernova. Observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have revealed ...

Their research was guided by a prediction from the 1970s: if a star collapses directly into a black hole, it should briefly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. My hypothesis is that remnants of a supernova – an exploding star – had an impact on the Earth’s past climate, causing global ...

The team discovered the star by analyzing archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission. They used a prediction from the 1970s ...