The star — now supernova — is located in the NGC 5731 galaxy about 120 million light-years away from Earth, and was 10 times more massive than the sun, the release said.

Astronomers were able to watch the unusually violent death of a red supergiant star for the first time. The observations completely change how they understand the final days of massive stars.

WOH G64 is what's known as a red giant, a star nearing the end of its life, running out of hydrogen fuel.Through this process, aging stars expand about 100 to 1,000 times their original size. But ...

Red Star, who lives and works in Portland, is one of 22 recipients of the 2024 MacArthur Fellowship, a prestigious “genius grant” that awards each recipient $800,000 over the course of five years.

Huge rings of gas surround a large red star named V Hydrae, new images show, signaling its eventual transformation into a much smaller and bluer star. “It’s definitely going through its ...

And Red Star, for her part, does not let the institutions have the last say. Each of her parfleches is named after a woman from the Apsáalooke tribe mentioned in the 1885 Crow Census.

Antares is a red supergiant star located 400 light-years from Earth. The waxing gibbous moon will shine close to the red star Antares in the constellation Scorpius on the night of June 9 ...