Astronomers have used a new type of extreme supernova in which a massive star was stripped right "down to the bone" to better ...

This investigation explores the possibility that quark stars, an even denser form of stellar remnant than neutron stars, may finally have been detected. New astronomical observations are pushing the ...

"Gaia provides the first accurate view of what our section of the Milky Way would look like from above," Lewis McCallum, an astronomer at the University of St. Andrews in the United Kingdom and first ...

Astronomers have discovered a new type of stellar object that could change their understanding of extreme celestial bodies in the universe. Initially, Curtin University doctoral student Tyrone ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have just discovered one of the rarest stars in our galaxy. These types of ...

Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what ...

A stellar nursery filled with hundreds of blistering-hot and massive newborn stars is captured in two new images by the James Webb Space Telescope, which showcase the uniquely dense region of outer ...

A study of more than 26,000 white dwarf stars has confirmed a long-predicted but elusive effect in these ultra-dense, dying stars: Hotter white dwarfs are slightly puffier than cooler ones, even when ...

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