Let’s start with the basics: A Supernova is when a star explodes. it’s bright, dramatic, and sends stuff flying across the ...

Supernovae like these are very luminous and referred to as "standard candles" in astronomy. As fixed points, they are used to ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

Originally published to critical acclaim, ‘The Day My Brain Exploded’ recounts Rajamani’s harrowing recovery from a ...

That means returning from the moon, the Artemis astronauts will be traveling at around 0.0037% the speed of light. Assuming a ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

Astronomers studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 have finally caught a white dwarf in the act of a rare “double-detonation” supernova, where an initial helium blast on the star’s surface triggers a ...

And in spite of these bangs, the heat death of the universe cannot be stopped. Exploding white dwarf stars may well be the last hurrah of the cosmos.

This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5. These are the expanding ...