Within six months, Kilonova Seekers’ over 2,000 volunteers contributed more than 600,000 classifications to researchers, resulting in a total of 20 new discoveries. Now, astronomers have announced the ...

Astronomers have teamed up with citizen scientists to discover a brand-new exploding star that's greedily feeding on a stellar companion. The newly observed binary system features a cataclysmic ...

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar ...

A rare supernova let scientists glimpse a star's interior, revealing a dense silicon-sulphur shell and unexpected helium that should have vanished earlier. (Nanowerk News) An exploding star has given ...

Astronomers at the University of Warwick have found a new exploding star in the sky but they said they would not have been able to do it without a team of amateur citizen scientists alerting them to ...

Scientists for the first time have spotted the insides of a dying star as it exploded, offering a rare peek into stellar evolution. Stars can live for millions to trillions of years until they run out ...

A star system in our own galactic neighborhood is poised to put on a show so bright it could briefly rival the planets and ...

Scientists have for the first time peered inside a dying star as it exploded in a supernova, gaining not just unprecedented views of its layers, but more so, insight into the process of stellar ...

Eventually, stars die — not with a whimper, but with a bang. When they do, there’s the potential that any nearby planets could be devastated by destructive cosmic rays, potentially wiping out life on ...