Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers have been patiently waiting for a "new star" to glow in the skies above Ohio and across the world. That "new star" ...

Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the blast was breaking through the star's surface. For ...

Stars often end their lives with a dazzling explosion, creating and releasing material into the universe. This will then seed new life, leading to a cosmic cycle of birth, death and rebirth.