A UC Santa Barbara graduate student alongside a local nonprofit research group have advanced the frontiers of physics while ...

Researchers say the "powerful engine" behind superluminous exploding stars had been hidden for years — until a "chirp" from the cosmos helped confirm their link.

For decades, astronomers have used distant supernovae as cosmic lighthouses to test fundamental physics and to measure the ...

For many years, astronomers have relied on distant supernovae as cosmic beacons to study the universe and test the laws of physics. But while ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new signal coming from an exploding star — a “chirp” that speeds up over time, similar to the signals seen when black holes collide. The unusual pattern appeared ...

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The light from the explosion did not reach Earth till June 29, 2025, when the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae detected it.

An artist's impression of cosmic rays impacting molecules and atoms in the Earths atmosphere. A new study suggests that cosmic radiation from a supernova explosion 2.5 million years ago may have ...