Considering the immense size of the universe, it's no surprise that space still holds plenty of secrets for us. Recently, ...

I was exploding with excitement to ask my friend Guy Worthey about supernovas. He’s an astronomer at Washington State University. He told me a supernova is a very energetic explosion in space. There ...

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Now, astronomers have found a star that may be as close as we’ve ever come to witnessing one of the primordial stars. Known ...

It's great to see old astronomical observations come to light. Not only can these confirm or refute what's known about ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

The supernova is one of the most powerful events in the universe — a star exploding in a brilliant flash. But could humans ever trigger such an event? Theoretically, it would require manipulating a ...

By combining Webb’s infrared data with older Hubble Space Telescope images, scientists traced the explosion, known as ...

Astronomers recorded the longest gamma-ray burst in history, GRB 250702B, that may be a cosmic event completely new to ...

Astronomers spot a red supergiant star hidden in dust just before it exploded, solving a long-standing mystery about missing ...