The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

In a press release, Gold Hydrogen says the three investors will help develop the regional market for low-carbon hydrogen. The ...

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses.

European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope took photos a rare supernova roughly 300 years after it happened ...

A new method uses helium droplets combined with ultrashort laser pulses to trigger chemical reactions in a controlled way.

MUSE allows astronomers to map the distribution of different chemical elements, displayed here in different colours. Calcium ...

"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

Population III (PopIII) stars represent astronomy's ultimate prize: the first generation of stars born from the pristine hydrogen and helium created in the Big Bang. These theoretical giants, ...

Jadarite—commonly known as kryptonite due to its chemical similarity to the mineral bane of Superman—has only every been found in a deposit in northern Serbia. Now, scientists have deciphered the ...

Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...

In the region of the radio-elements, where we have abundant examples of the expulsion of helium atoms as a particles, it seems as if we could almost safely neglect this effect altogether.

The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...