The James Webb Space Telescope has picked up the light from a massive star that exploded about a billion years after the ...

A distinctive nebula inside the constellation Lyra holds a never-before-seen cloud of iron atoms—and researchers aren’t sure ...

A colossal bar of iron hidden inside the Ring Nebula may be the ghostly remains of a planet destroyed by a dying star.

A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow ...

More information about a mysterious, energetic burst, formally known as a gamma-ray burst (GRB), spotted in space 13 billion ...

Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) instruments, the U.S.

Astronomers have created a detailed forecast of where they expect to observe future stellar explosions in a nearby galaxy, ...

Scientists have precisely measured two unstable atomic nuclei that play a crucial role in explosive X-ray bursts on neutron stars. The results reveal faster nuclear reactions than previously thought, ...

As is often the case in this category, there was no obvious stand-out candidate here. As ish95 noted, this was probably the first time we have had two off-field personnel nominated in this category.

A stormy spiral galaxy called NGC 1792 is bursting with activity in a striking new Hubble image. Sitting more than 50 million light-years away, the galaxy’s glowing core is oddly offset from its ...

Scientists are uncovering new clues that a cosmic explosion may have rocked Earth at the end of the last ice age. At major Clovis-era sites, researchers found shocked quartz—evidence of intense heat ...

2025 was a year in which some of the greatest stars in modern TV history took their final bow. From Anthony Geary, who captivated a nation as Luke on General Hospital, to Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who ...