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

There is a lot of complicated but beautiful physics in understanding how this explosion takes place,” says Purdue University ...

Astronomers mistook a Tesla Roadster that was launched into orbit in 2018 for an asteroid earlier this month. The registry of ...

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

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

"The high explosion energy of AT 2023adsv could indicate that the properties of supernova explosions might have been different in the early universe." Supernovas in the early universe just hit ...

here’s a glimpse of what to expect in 2037—a very special year for stargazing and astronomy: When the light from a distant object—like a supernova—passes very near to a foreground galaxy ...

and seeing that the star’s behavior is unusual is enough “evidence” for some to jump to the conclusion that the star is about to explode in a brilliant supernova. Fortunately (or ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope identified one of the oldest supernovas, AT 2023adsv, revealing early universe phenomena ...

The sun, a searing hot sphere of gas primarily composed of hydrogen and helium, boasts surface and outer atmospheric ...