Astronomers have discovered the first radio signals from a unique category of dying stars, called Type Ibn supernovae, and ...

Astronomers have discovered the first pairs of white dwarf and main sequence stars -- 'dead' remnants and 'living' stars -- in young star clusters. This breakthrough offers new insights on an extreme ...

Aging stars can completely destroy their planets. When a star reaches the end of its life on the main sequence, it goes ...

Astrophysicists are closing in on one of the strangest possibilities in stellar evolution, a compact remnant that might sit between neutron stars and black holes. These hypothetical “quark stars” ...

Nuclear astrophysics plays a pivotal role in informing our understanding of stellar evolution by investigating the nuclear reactions within stars that dictate their birth, evolution, and ultimate fate ...

The evolution of stars and their interactions with compact objects, such as black holes and neutron stars, remain pivotal in our understanding of the cosmos. Stellar evolution describes the life ...

Astronomers have discovered how "forever young" stars stay blue and bright despite being almost as old as the universe.

In an unprecedented discovery, astronomers have observed a new type of supernova that seems to defy the very principles of stellar evolution that have been held for decades. The supernova, named ...

For the first time, the famous “spirograph” Planetary Nebula IC418’s non-explosive stellar evolution has been captured over an unprecedented period of 130 years—almost double the length of a typical ...

In March 2025, a fleeting yet monumental cosmic event captured the attention of astronomers worldwide. For just ten seconds, a gamma-ray burst, known as GRB 250314A, illuminated our detectors, ...

Orion Nebula, Pleiades and Hyades: The latest research results indicate that these famous star clusters represent the different phases of life of one and the same star system. A team of ...

This image from the ALMA telescope shows star system HD101584 and the complex gas clouds surrounding the binary. It is the result of a pair of stars sharing a common outer layer during their last ...