The red supergiant star Betelgeuse, which shines intensely in the constellation of Orion, has always intrigued astronomers ...

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 ...

Scientists now believe highly magnetised neutron stars, or magnetars, are a significant source of gold and other heavy ...

A cosmic explosion known as GRB 250702B is by far the longest gamma-ray burst astronomers have ever seen—if it’s even one at ...

The BOAT – or Brightest of All Time, a record that has yet to be beaten – was a gamma-ray burst accompanying a supernova ...

But most of the gold on Earth isn’t in our hands; it’s deep underground. During the planet’s formation, heavy elements like gold and platinum sank toward the molten iron core. Geologists estimate that ...

"No low-frequency radio image of the entire Southern Galactic Plane has been published before, making this an exciting ...

NASA's NICER telescope halts its mission after a key motor fails; engineers attempt to salvage eight years of space science.

Astronomers observed the fading light of supernova SN 2025kg, which followed the fast X-ray transient (FXT) named EP 250108a.

V Sagittae’s violent mass transfer hints at an imminent nova—and a future supernova visible from Earth. Binary star systems are fairly common in the universe, as are pairs where one star is a compact ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope confirmed the existence of a companion star orbiting Betelgeuse, ...