If you hear the word “superstar,” what immediately comes to mind? Perhaps names like Tom Hanks, Taylor Swift or LeBron James? That’s certainly ...

When most people think of a supernova, they're thinking of a Type II core-collapse supernova. These are massive stars that have reached the end of their time on the main sequence. They've used up ...

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday7Asteroid 7 Iris reaches opposition at 1 P.M. EST today. Now ...

This one red giant star has been making it to Google news a few times a year because some scientist or the other says it is about to explode. Well, this star has been on the verge of exploding for ...

A big temperature shift like this could be a sign of a forthcoming supernova in one of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies, but that’s not the only possible outcome.

Dark energy is one of those cosmological features that we are still learning about. While we can't see it directly, we can most famously observe its effects on the Universe - primarily how it is ...

One of the brightest stars in the Andromeda galaxy quietly collapsed into a black hole without any of the fanfare of a spectacular supernova. What makes this startling discovery even more remarkable ...

Scientists have seen something spectacular unfolding in Andromeda, our neighboring spiral galaxy, located some 2.5 million light-years away from Earth. The spectacular part is actually what they ...

In 2014, a NASA telescope observed as 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 three ...