On January 26, 1978, the International Ultraviolet Explorer launched into orbit on a mission to study ultraviolet light ...

Thorne-Żytkow objects that we haven't yet seen. There is, however, more to learn about these stars and the cosmos.

Young supernovas could have spread water out into the cosmos, causing planet formations earlier than originally thought.

JWST revealed a massive star that ended its life in an explosion when the universe was just a cosmic toddler.

A research team at the , Academia Sinica (ASIAA) has achieved groundbreaking insights into the physics of supernova ...

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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured stunning images of these cosmic explosions, and we’re counting down the top 10 ...

Supernovae are one of the most useful events in all of astronomy. Scientists can directly measure their power, their spin, ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

A light echo is created when a star explodes or erupts, flashing light into surrounding clumps of dust and causing them to shine in an ever-expanding pattern.

The mystery of the Hubble tension has deepened with the startling finding that the Coma Cluster of galaxies is 38 million ...