Astronomers from Texas have witnessed the moment a star’s surface is torn apart by a supernova, becoming oblong in the ...

Astronomers mapped supernova SN 2024ggi for the first time, revealing an elongated shockwave, challenging old stellar ...

The beginning of winter is a great time to be taking up astronomy, with long dark nights and a multitude of bright stars on display, Nigel Henbest writes ...

A small star named M82 X-2 breaks physical barriers, as NASA's NuSTAR confirms it shines 10 million times brighter than the ...

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Astronomers say they may have finally spotted a long‑sought signal from dark matter, the invisible substance that outweighs ...

The detection of gravitational waves in 2023 revealed a cosmic event that seemed to overturn known laws of astrophysics, ...

The explosive death of a star — a supernova — is among the most violent cosmic events, but precisely how this cataclysm looks ...

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"Why are we here?" is humanity's most fundamental and persistent question. Tracing the origins of the elements is a direct ...

Most of the universe is made up of dark matter and dark energy. The majority of everything else is dispersed throughout space ...

A new paper published in Nature Communications could put scientists on the path to understanding one of the wildest, hottest, ...