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

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

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

"The James Webb Space Telescope has been truly revolutionary- it is now hard to imagine what life was like without it!" ...

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

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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 ...

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

New research confirms the Universe is expanding faster than theoretical models predict, intensifying the Hubble tension.

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