A massive star was supposed to vanish without a trace, instead, it erupted in a spectacular explosion. The light from this ...

A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow ...

"We found something never seen before and, more importantly, entirely unexpected," team leader Simone Scaringi of Durham ...

It's the last clearly observed supernova in the Milky Way, Gassel said.

It will be a spectacular event, but calculating when it will happen is a tricky business. Every now and then, in recent observations, Betelgeuse has grown dimmer or brightened, prompting speculation ...

Short-lived radioisotopes such as aluminum-26 influenced early solar system heat, water retention and the formation of Earth-like rocky planets, according to meteorite analyses and models.

In a series of observations that read like science fiction, astronomers now suspect they have watched a star quite literally ...

An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), detecting a supernova—the explosive death of a massive star—at an ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) identified the earliest known supernova, occurring 730 million years after the Big Bang, by following up on the gamma-ray burst GRB 250314A detected by the SVOM ...

The supernova SN 2025wny is hopelessly far, lying approximately 10 billion light-years from Earth. Normally, this would make it impossible for astronomers to detect. But one team got lucky. While ...

Astronomers are a step closer to cracking one of the secrets of dark energy—the mysterious force believed to be causing the universe's accelerated expansion. Dark energy makes up approximately 68% of ...

This weekend, the beloved community festival SUPERNOVA returns for its biggest celebration yet as it marks its 10-year milestone at The Lafitte Greenway. The three-day, free, family-friendly, ...