The team discovered the star by analyzing archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission. They used a prediction from the 1970s ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Pandora satellite provides career training grounds while observing exoplanets.
The Hubble Space Telescope releases striking images of a distant star exploding some 20,000 light years from Earth, capturing ...
A “disappearing” star in the Andromeda galaxy is the closest and best candidate for a newborn black hole that astronomers have ever seen ...
A supercharged neutrino that smashed into our planet in 2023 may have been spit out by an exploding primordial black hole ...
Astronomers are used to dramatic endings. When a massive star dies, it usually explodes ...
A massive star in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has simply disappeared. Some astronomers believe that it's collapsed in on ...
Astronomers tracked a star in Andromeda as it dimmed and vanished without the usual fiery explosion, offering rare clues to how black holes form.
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 ...
Charleston, SC, astronomy professor answers questions from high school students about wormholes, black holes, colonizing Mars, outer space odors and more.