NASA’s NEOWISE archival data tracks a massive star in Andromeda fading quietly into a black hole, providing detailed observations of stellar collapse and gas expulsion from 2005 to 2023.

Only one such event had been documented previously, a star recorded vanishing around 2010 in a galaxy 22 million light-years ...

Kishalay De, an alumnus of St James’ School and currently at Columbia University, has helped solve the mystery, showing that the star collapsed directly into a black hole — without the usual supernova ...

The team discovered the star by analyzing archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission. They used a prediction from the 1970s that theorized that when a star underwent direct collapse, it would leave ...

In 2014, a NASA telescope observed as the infrared light emitted by a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy gradually grew brighter. The star glowed ...

Scientists sifting through archival data captured by NASA's former NEOWISE mission found an unusual star that quickly disappeared, fading to nothing ...

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

Hubble has captured a detailed new image of the Egg Nebula, a pre-planetary nebula 1,000 light-years away. The glowing gas ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is once again giving us a glimpse of something that is thousands of light-years away from the ...

A brief but dazzlingly bright occurrence illuminated the far sky in July 2025. It was something far more subdued and terrible ...