A brilliant star in our nearest galactic neighbor didn’t go out with a bang, it simply faded from sight, leaving scientists to piece together what could make something so massive vanish so quietly.

A massive star brightened in infrared light, then vanished without exploding. Astronomers uncovered the quiet birth of a black hole.

In the nearby Andromeda Galaxy, a massive star bright enough to stand out for years has gone dark. Not in a blaze of glory.

A bright star in the Andromeda galaxy appears to have simply vanished. After a dramatic mid-infrared flare in 2014, the ...

A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a ...

Using archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission along with data from other space and ground-based observatories, astronomers identified the clearest observational record yet of a massive star fading ...

The Wuthering Heights press tour may be coming to a close this week, but romantic glam isn’t going anywhere. Hailey Bieber is the latest celebrity to join the fun: For the film’s Australian premiere, ...

NASA’s NEOWISE has allowed astronomers to get the best and most complete view of a star collapsing into a black hole ever recorded.

Astronomers have watched a dying star fail to explode as a supernova, instead collapsing into a black hole. The remarkable sighting is the most complete observational record ever made of a star's ...

Scientists have captured the moment a supergiant star collapses into a black hole, revealing the star's death in an incredible animation.

One of the brightest stars in the Andromeda galaxy has disappeared without the explosion astronomers expected. Instead, they ...

Deep inside a nearby galaxy cloaked in thick clouds of gas and dust, astronomers have uncovered a surprising treasure trove ...