If confirmed, this disappearing act might provide the closest and best observational evidence for the birth of a black hole ...

Pew pew pew.

Ancient star clusters hold a surprise. Bright blue stars, appearing young, have baffled astronomers for decades. Now, James ...

Since it turned on, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of mysterious red blobs in space. The so-called Little ...

In the nearby Andromeda Galaxy, a massive star bright enough to stand out for years has gone dark. Not in a blaze of glory.

For decades, astronomers have been watching WOH G64, an enormous heavyweight star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy ...

In 2014, a NASA telescope observed that the infrared light emitted by a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy gradually grew brighter. The star glowed more intensely with infrared light for around ...

DS1, collapsed into a black hole without exploding, revealing how stars die in silent “failed supernova” events.

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer inside the heart of spiral galaxies, where young stars carve out glowing paths. The space observatory, named after a North Carolina native, ...

A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has glimpsed the most distant single star it's ever observed, glimmering 28 billion light-years away. And the star could be between 50 to 500 times more massive than our sun ...

NASA shared images of the Egg Nebula as the star inside it is dying. #hubblespace #dyingstar #eggnebula #spaceexploration ...