According to scientists, red supergiant stars should produce more supernovas. But astronomers just aren’t spotting them. Here's how they plan to crack the case.

In recent years, whenever astronomers have gazed into the night sky, they’ve noticed something peculiar: Some of its massive stars—the true titans of the cosmos—appear to be missing. The largest of ...

Artist’s conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk that is wobbling, or precessing, because of the effects of general relativity. Some models of magnetars suggest that high-speed jets ...

From a mountaintop in Chile, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is preparing to capture the most detailed, decade-long movie of the night sky ever attempted. With the world’s largest digital camera, the ...

Some of the most spectacular images ever captured by the Hubble Space Telescope reveal the violent remains of exploding stars. These supernova remnants include glowing clouds of gas, rapidly expanding ...

Image of the Kinman Dwarf galaxy taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 in 2011, before the disappearance of the massive star. (NASA, ESA / Hubble, J. Andrews, University ...