Along the East African Rift, Lake Tanganyika lies in isolation among towering mountains. The lake is more than 400 miles […] ...

About 2.5 million years ago, the viruses infecting fish in Lake Tanganyika underwent a mysterious explosion in diversity. It may have been a nearby star exploding.

the James Webb Space Telescope's powerful infrared eyes watched as light from a centuries-old supernova illuminated interstellar material, warming it and causing it to glow. "This is going to ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found evidence that a neutron star formed in the remnants of the most-studied supernova in history, helping to confirm a decades-old theory.

The new paper, led by recent undergraduate student Caitlyn Nojiri and co-authored by astronomy and astrophysics professor Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz and postdoctoral fellow Noémie Globus, examined iron ...

examined iron isotopes to identify a 2.5 million-year-old supernova. The researchers connected this stellar explosion to a surge of radiation that pummeled Earth around the same time, and they ...