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 ...

James Webb has spotted the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding just 730 million years after the Big Bang, offering ...

New high-resolution images show that novae are anything but simple stellar fireworks. One exploded with multiple gas streams ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how we wonder . . . well, where to even begin? How do stars form from gas and dust? Why do some stars go supernova? And what the heck is the "main sequence?" We brought ...

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 ...

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar explosion — or any other type of normal stellar explosion." When you purchase ...

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 ...

“After their audience with the king, [the wise men] set out,” reads chapter two of the Book of Matthew. “And behold, the star that they had seen at its rising preceded them, until it came and stopped ...