Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the greater mysteries facing astronomers today, rivaled only by gravitational waves (GWs) ...

If it’s real, some may question whether something with a mass about three times Pluto’s counts as a planet at all.

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

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

SNR 0519 is a supernova remnant (SNR) made up of thin, blood-red shells of gas. It is the remnant of a star that exploded as a supernova about 600 years ago. This image, shows Supernova 1987a (center) ...

Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon ...

Astronomers have detected fast-repeating radio bursts from a distant "dead" galaxy that should not contain the energy to ...

Large stars have cosmically short lifetimes, so the fact that this FRB occurred in an old, long-dead galaxy means that the ...

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As reported by Science News Explores, the explosion, believed to be a type 1a supernova, is typically associated with the ...

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

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