"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of ...

Florida’s Turnpike closed on the morning of Jan. 7 because of a tractor-trailer fire with exploding propane tanks.

"This was many times more energetic than any similar event and more than any known explosion powered by the collapse of a ...

It's the last clearly observed supernova in the Milky Way, Gassel said.

Astronomers have created a detailed forecast of where they expect to observe future stellar explosions in a nearby galaxy, ...

NASA’s Chandra Observatory reveals a 25-year time-lapse of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant. Glowing debris expands at different ...

A s the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to peer into the origins of our universe, it’s delivering a steady stream ...

Theologians, historians and astronomers have debated the Biblical story for centuries. "The Adoration of the Magi" by Guiseppe Chiari (1654-1727). The Virgin Mary, seated on the left and turned to the ...

A research team led by Caltech may have just discovered the first-ever superkilonova, a cosmic phenomenon in which a star explodes twice in violently different ways. Their analysis of a series of ...

Astronomers traced a mysterious 'scar' of ionized gas around the solar system to two stars that had a close flyby with our sun millions of years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been produced by the explosion of a massive star just 730 million years after the Big ...

What can imaging supernovae (plural for supernova) explosions teach astronomers about their behavior and physical characteristics? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to ...