Any night now, a "new star" or nova will appear in the night sky. While it won't set the sky ablaze, it's a special opportunity to see a rare event that's usually difficult to predict in advance.

The corpse of a star -- maybe a black hole, maybe a neutron star -- pulled a living star into the land of the dead. ... which intends to image about 80% of the sky in three phases over seven years.

2 'new stars' have exploded into the night sky at once — potentially for the first time in history A 'new star' has exploded into the night sky — and you can see it from North America ...

White dwarf stars are dead stars that were once like our sun ... It would have been one of the brightest objects in the southern hemisphere night sky, but there are no records that any human saw it at ...

The result is a powerful burst of energy, ejecting gas and causing a dramatic brightening in the night sky. In recurrent systems like LMCN 1968-12a, this process happens repeatedly.

Rapidly spinning dead stars in the dwarf galaxy Sagittarius are the source of gamma-ray emissions within the massive bubbles that blow out from our galaxy.

“I immediately noticed that the position was not a random position in the sky, but right in the center of a very bright galaxy, M82,” says Mereghetti. ... The Wild Afterlives of Dead Stars.

The stars we can see in the night sky are a lot closer and live a lot longer than you would think. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Gamma rays emerging from neutron stars at the hearts of supernova explosions could solve the mystery of dark matter — in just 10 seconds. That is, if dark matter is composed of axions, which are ...

Astronomers have detected 21 rare systems with widely separated neutron stars and sun-like stars. These binaries are "one in a million" and challenge dead star binary formation models.

The dead star, called a pulsar, is the leftover core of a star that exploded in a supernova. The pulsar is only about 12 miles (19 kilometers) in diameter but packs a big punch.

Astronomers have recently begun to grapple with the idea these dead stars may still host a number of planets. In December, researchers detected a planet that was slowly being devoured by a white ...