Plenty of recent mainstream news articles have touted AI's ability to assist in the process of scientific discovery. But most…
Recently, much attention has been given to massive, active galaxies discovered by the JWST in the early universe. But in…
Hubble and other observatories worldwide have witnessed a Luminous Fast Blue Optical event between two galaxies.
What happens just before a massive star explodes as a supernova? To figure that out, astronomers need to look at…
Twenty thousand years ago, a star in the constellation Cygnus went supernova. Like all supernovae, the explosion released a staggering…
In 2009, astronomers watched a bizarre mystery unfold. An enormous star, with 25 times the mass of the Sun, faded…
A recent study examines how the Earth was hit by blasts from supernovae (plural form of supernova (SN)) that occurred…
When the largest stars in the Universe run out of fuel, they detonate as supernovae, collapsing inward and leaving behind…
Although we haven't had a supernova explode nearby in a few hundred years, it's just a matter of time before…
In 1987, a supernova suddenly appeared in the Large Magellanic Cloud and was studied by astronomers worldwide. Although the detonating…