An animation of the moment NASA spotted a black hole ripping a star apart and the subsequent explosion helps shed light on ...

THE explosion of a distant star light years away could be visible to Earthbound stargazers this week. The star system, tucked away in the constellation Corona Borealis, explodes once every 80 years… ...

Citizen scientists have spotted the moment a binary star system exploded after playing “spot the difference” with images from two telescopes on opposite sides of the planet.

For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but they've never seen visual evidence of this happening. That just changed.

Citizen scientists have spotted the moment a binary star system exploded after playing “spot the difference” with images from two telescopes on opposite sides of the planet. The volunteers had joined ...