Will two rare supernovas finally tell us how fast the universe is expanding? Perhaps, but we'll have to wait for it for them ...

In our galaxy, a supernova explodes about once or twice each century. But historical astronomical records show that the last ...

"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of black hole binaries." ...

The mysterious 10-second flash of energy, first detected in March, has been identified thanks to NASA's ever-impressive James Webb Space Telescope. Astrologers believe that it came from a time when ...

On April 10, 2024, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) detected first light from an explosion of a massive star with roughly 12 to 15 times the sun’s mass. Just 26 hours later, ...

NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope "detected none of the high-energy gamma-ray light" from a nearby supernova. NASA ...

A jetliner was nearly knocked out of the sky and sent plummeting to a deadly crash that would have killed all onboard by a ...

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A team of astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a remarkably distant Type II supernova that ...

An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The insides of a star are on full display thanks to an explosion. New research published this month in Nature is revealing the details of a star’s core. “This is the first time we have ...

Woodland Park Zoo shares new photos of tiny lion cub sisters Woodland Park Zoo has released new photos of two African lion cubs, offering a peek at a pair of growing sisters still settling into life ...