The explosion of Betelgeuse will be a once-in-human-history event. This video details exactly what we'll see from Earth when the supernova occurs: a new point of light as bright as the full moon, ...

The Cassiopeia A supernova remnant reveals that massive exploding stars can forge far more of life's essential ingredients ...

Rare cosmic explosions have earned an international award for an astrophysics collaboration led by an Oxford professor.

A detailed suite of simulations conducted by astrophysicists at the Flatiron Institute and their collaborators showed that magnetic fields can produce black holes with masses that were previously ...

Determining the "loudest recorded sound" depends on how you define sound and on which measurements you choose to include.

When a distant galaxy briefly outshines everything around it in high-energy light, astronomers usually know which playbook to reach for. Gamma-ray bursts tend to fall into familiar categories, either ...