Is there anything more dramatic than an exploding star? More than just extraordinarily bright, energetic events that can ...

Astronomers may have misread cosmic acceleration for 27 years. The universe may be slowing down, not speeding up.

The only possibility left was an extraordinary one: a tidal disruption event, or TDE.

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For decades, it was assumed that the expansion of the universe was accelerating—a theory that won the Nobel Prize. Now, ...

New research challenges the long-held belief of an ever-accelerating universe, suggesting instead that it may be slowing down, altering predictions of its ultimate fate.

Supernova remnants, stellar nurseries and more populate the new edge-on view of the Milky Way as seen from Earth’s southern hemisphere.

For several decades, evidence has suggested that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Crucial to those estimates were the use of standard candles, celestial events of the same luminosity ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called ...

An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of ...

Analysis suggests that the most luminous burst of light ever detected from a black hole — a fireworks show that was, at its peak, more than 10 trillion times brighter than the Sun — flared up as the ...