Venus blazes near Zeta Tauri, recreating the sight astronomers saw in 1054 when the Crab Nebula’s progenitor star went ...

Core collapse supernovae are among the most powerful and dramatic events in the cosmos. When a massive star reaches the end ...

Collapsing stars might act as cosmic laboratories for discovering hidden neutrino interactions. Neutrinos are among the most puzzling particles in the universe. Nearly massless and incredibly elusive, ...

Astronomers at MIT, Columbia University, and elsewhere have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer through the ...

Most of the universe is made up of hydrogen and helium atoms, which came into being after the Big Bang cooled down a little. Heavier atoms are formed during high-energy collisions in stars.

Both teams releasing papers detected the object independently, using different sets of data. Both teams found the same ...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is set to embark on a deep-sky survey that could capture nearly 100,000 cosmic explosions, ...

“Transitional millisecond pulsars are cosmic laboratories, helping us understand how neutron stars evolve in binary systems,” ...

Neutrinos are among the most mysterious particles in the universe. They are extremely light, travel close to the speed of ...

Roman’s deep, time-lapse survey may reveal a hundred thousand stellar cataclysms, from distant Type Ia supernovae to the self ...

When massive stars reach the end of their lives, something strange and violent happens deep inside them. As they run out of ...

Two teams of astronomers have simultaneously discovered a strange, spinning dead star that seems to defy our current ...