Now, researchers led by Los Alamos National Laboratory have proposed a bold new idea: that stars collapsing into black holes ...

"Magnetar birth rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics." ...

Related: 25 gorgeous nebula photos that capture the beauty of the universe Our own sun will also die as a white dwarf, which is the final stage for medium-mass stars that run out of fuel.

Because they are so massive – the 'death star' is around 13 solar masses – that lifespan is very short; WR 104 is around just 7 million years old. The Wolf-Rayet stage of such a massive star's life ...

Spectacular new images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope gave astronomers a detailed, never-before-seen look at a dying star. The star is actually one of two at the heart of NGC 1514 ...

High-mass stars, on the other hand ... which sets off a final collapse and catastrophe. When low-mass stars die, they collapse under their own weight until their centers act in some ways like ...

Our own sun will also die as a white dwarf, which is the final stage for medium-mass stars that run out of fuel.White dwarfs gradually dim and cool until they wink out of existence altogether. In ...

Spectacular new images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope gave astronomers a detailed, never-before-seen look at a dying star. The star is actually one of two at the heart of NGC 1514, a nebula in ...