The ISS, orbiting at 28,000 km per hour and 400 km above Earth, captured the grand religious event using its high-powered ...

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) ...

Hubble has previously imaged the same nebula, with an image released in 2023 and another shared in 2020. You might also recognize the name of this nebula as it was made world famous when the James ...

Young supernovas could have spread water out into the cosmos, causing planet formations earlier than originally thought.

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

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured stunning images of these cosmic explosions, and we’re counting down the top 10 ...

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

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 2566, which sits 76 million light-years away in the ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

A light echo is created when a star explodes or erupts, flashing light into surrounding clumps of dust and causing them to shine in an ever-expanding pattern.

Measurements of the distance to the Coma Cluster of galaxies find that it is millions of light years closer than the standard ...

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