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 ...

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 ...

In an exciting new study published in Nature Astronomy, astronomers have unveiled unexpected findings from the XRISM ...

The JetBlue flight was headed from Cancun to Newark on Oct. 30, when it fell out of the sky for no apparent reason in a ...

The results indicate that the elements essential for life formed within extreme, highly energetic environments deep inside ...

"Why are we here?" is humanity's most fundamental and persistent question. Tracing the origins of the elements is a direct ...

Astronomers from Texas have witnessed the moment a star’s surface is torn apart by a supernova, becoming oblong in the ...

The universe’s expansion might not be accelerating but slowing down, a new study suggests. If confirmed, the finding would upend decades of established astronomical assumptions and rewrite our ...

(CNN) — The universe’s expansion might not be accelerating but slowing down, a new study suggests. If confirmed, the finding would upend decades of established astronomical assumptions and rewrite our ...

Scientists have revealed for the first time a jaw-dropping early view of an exploding supernova. Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed ...