The handheld particle detector CosmicWatch is roughly the size of a box of animal crackers. Every time a muon passes through ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. A star's spectacular death in the constellation Taurus was ...

Astronomers have created a detailed forecast of where they expect to observe future stellar explosions in a nearby galaxy, ...

Amy Lien receives funding from the NASA Citizen Science Seed Funding Program. When faraway stars explode, they send out flashes of energy called gamma-ray bursts that are bright enough that telescopes ...

Alex Filippenko is the kind of guy who brings a telescope to a party. True to form, at a soiree on May 18 this year, he wowed his hosts with images of star clusters and colorful galaxies — including ...

Brad E Tucker receives funding from the Australian Research Council and ACT Government. What is the universe made of? This question has driven astronomers for hundreds of years. For the past quarter ...

The largest data release of relatively nearby supernovae (colossal explosions of stars), containing three years of data is publicly available via the Young Supernova Experiment (YSE). Celestial ...

Astronomers have obtained remarkably detailed images of two stellar explosions -- called novae -- just days after they began.

When massive stars or other stellar objects explode in the Earth's cosmic neighborhood, ejected debris can also reach our solar system. Traces of such events are found on Earth or the Moon and can be ...