Unlike our Sun, which is a relatively low mass star and which will gradually fade before expanding into a red giant at the end of its life, larger mass stars undergo extreme explosive events when they ...

The peculiar elemental makeup of one star in the Milky Way could be due to a massive type of stellar collapse in the early universe, a team of astronomers announced today. The finding could help ...

A bizarre star may have its origins in one of the most energetic events in the cosmos. Astronomers have found that a star with a very unusual composition may have formed in the wake of a new type of ...

This analysis confirms the existence of a jet emerging from the nucleus of the star, producing the GRB, and adds a new component to the picture During the early phases, the jet interacts with the ...

If there’s one thing massive stars love doing toward the ends (and climaxes) of their lives, it’s exploding outward against the force of gravity in a KABLAM! so huge it outshines its host galaxy. But ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered the first evidence of the destruction of a collapsed and rapidly spinning star in a phenomenon they have called a magneto-rotational hypernova. This ...

Extremely bright supernovas, called hypernovae, have been linked to gamma-ray bursts, but theorists have struggled to explain how a collapsing massive star could produce a magnetic field a million ...

The star SMSS J200322.54-114203.3 (centre, with crosshairs) in the south-eastern corner of the constellation Aquila is thought to have formed from the remnants of a short-lived, even more ancient star ...

In the final seconds of a massive star’s life, a lot happens all at once. But the outcome is inevitable: BOOM. Just how big a boom depends on the details of everything going on. The core of a star is ...

The end of a star's life can occur in a tranquil manner in the case of low mass stars, such as the Sun. This is not the case, however, for very massive stars, which suffer such extreme explosive ...