"With ALMA, we can now see the atmosphere of a dying star with a level of clarity in a similar way to what we do for the sun.

Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have helped uncover new clues about the longest-lasting cosmic ...

“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is ...

Every breath of air, every strand of DNA and every cell in my body carries a chemical story that began long before Earth existed, in the violent death of ancient stars. The key elements that make life ...

When the 3 rd -century Christian theologian Origen of Alexandria attempted to account for the unusual movements of the Star ...

There are already tens of thousands of pieces of large debris in orbit, some of which pose a threat to functional satellites.

The longest gamma-ray burst ever observed has UNC Chapel Hill astronomers questioning the very nature of these cosmic ...

Scientists have found an "extreme" solution to the mysterious origins of critical life-supporting elements chlorine and potassium.

Since the beginning of our species’ history, we have used the stars to propel us forward. The stars allowed us to navigate ...

Two new stars, or nova eruptions, have been resolved in unprecedented detail by six optical telescopes operating in unison as ...