The name "Intermediate Luminosity Red Transients" or "ILRTs" might not be an astronomical term you are familiar with, but these rare, brightness-shifting stars have been quite the mystery in ...

Scientists have announced that a dim star in a constellation easily visible after dark from the Northern Hemisphere may be on the verge of exploding. The binary star system, called T Corona Borealis ...

The brilliant flash of an exploding star’s shockwave—what astronomers call the “shock breakout” -- is illustrated in this cartoon animation. The animation begins with a view of a red supergiant star ...

"An M dwarf alone couldn't generate the amount of energy we're seeing. Our data suggests that it is in a binary with another object, which is likely to be a white dwarf, the stellar core of a dying ...

What can an exploding star in a distant galaxy teach scientists about red supergiants? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of ...

A first-of-its-kind, animated map has revealed fresh secrets about a mysterious, flowering "zombie star" lurking in the remnant of a supernova that lit up Earth's skies more than 800 years ago. The ...