Nowadays, scientists armed with sophisticated telescopes witness many supernovas every year, but they have all been distant ...

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...

Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the blast was breaking through the star’s surface. For ...

The observations are the earliest yet of a supernova, revealing in detail the moment that the shockwave obliterated the star.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The explosive death of a star - a supernova - is among the most violent cosmic events, but precisely how this cataclysm looks as it unfolds has remained mysterious. Scientists ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The explosive death of a star – a supernova – is among the most violent cosmic events, but precisely how this cataclysm looks as it unfolds has remained mysterious. Scientists ...

A long-held dream in astronomy has finally come into reach, and it carries a surprising emotional weight. For years, scientists have imagined watching the Milky Way evolve one star at a time, almost ...

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...

NASA 's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed that an exceptionally rare star duo in the Milky Way has a third companion — ...

Their AI learned how gas behaves after supernovae, removing one of the biggest computational bottlenecks in galactic ...

A new study reveals that the Pleiades is the core of a once-much-larger cluster, many of whose members have scattered to the ...