NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled an awe-inspiring celestial spectacle of a spiral galaxy interacting with a ...

A picturesque galaxy 40 million light-years away, NGC 5530 dazzles with its patchy spiral arms in the constellation Lupus.

The explosion released elements heavier than iron—like gold and platinum—through a process known as rapid neutron capture ...

Dark energy, in the form of a cosmological constant (Λ), has been seen as responsible for the accelerating expansion of space, holding a steady energy density.

A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...

Violent supernovas may have caused two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions that have never been completely explained, ...

Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 ...

At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the 'devastating' effects of nearby supernova explosions, a new study suggests. Researchers say these super-powerful blasts ...

We know that regular supernovas pose no existential threat to life on Earth in the near-term. But there are other varieties ...

Deaths of nearby massive stars may have played a significant role in triggering at least two mass extinction events in ...