For decades, Type Ia supernovae have been the gold standard for measuring the expansion of the universe. These massive ...

Astrophysicists have done a bit of crime scene investigation on what’s almost a reverse murder mystery. They’ve traced ...

The universe is ballooning outward at an ever-faster clip under the power of an unknown force dubbed dark energy. One of the ...

The Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio, a key valuation measure, is calculated by dividing the stock's most recent closing price by the sum of the diluted earnings per share from continuing operations ...

A supernova is one of the most powerful and mysterious phenomena in the universe. It’s an event that occurs when a star ...

At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the "devastating" effects of nearby supernova ...

"It's insane that something is from space can have that kind of an impact on our electronics. So we're thinking, okay, how ...

Sometimes deep space can seem like a cold, uncaring place fully removed from the dramas unfolding on the planet Earth.

Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), astronomers have performed high-resolution observations of a nearby ...

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.

Simulated stellar explosions show that massive early stars could have created plentiful water for future stars and planets to ...