Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have for the first time identified the progenitor of a nearby supernova -- a red supergiant star cloaked in thick, dust-rich shrouds that ...

Astronomers have been watching the supergiant WOH G64 for decades – and it might have turned into a hypergiant and be heading ...

Several telescopes used to observe the supernova SN Zwicky which was magnified nearly 25 times by a foreground galaxy acting ...

That the universe is expanding has been known for almost a hundred years now, but how fast? The exact rate of that expansion ...

Some of the strangest ideas about space — from cosmic sounds to rogue planets — are grounded in real science. Astronomers ...

A mysterious cosmic explosion linked to gravitational waves may reveal a previously unknown type of supernova event - a ...

Only one such event had been documented previously, a star recorded vanishing around 2010 in a galaxy 22 million light-years away. Now, by carefully looking over archival observations of the Andromeda ...

The post in question was titled “ Something Big Is Happening .” It got over 100k likes and 75 million impressions according to X’s totally accurate engagement trackers. It was written by AI with the ...

It was one of the most feverishly-anticipated, instantly-controversial halftime shows in history. You didn’t need to know Spanish to grasp the message: Puerto Rico is America; fiesta is a form of ...

It's all over the internet this week - trees "exploding" in the cold. I'm getting messages, memes and TikToks sent to me about it. It's funny (in a way), but let's set aside expectation from reality ...

Astronomers have captured the first radio waves ever detected from a rare class of exploding star, a discovery that has given them an unprecedented look into the final years of a massive star before ...