The first double-burst supernova ever observed, SNR 0509, is a historic discovery that reveals how white dwarfs explode in ...

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

THIS BLAST. IT WAS JUST REALLY SCARY. SO IT WAS PRETTY TERRIFYING. OH MY GOD. ROSEDALE NEIGHBORS. DESCRIBE WHAT THEY WOKE UP TO AT 2 A.M. TUESDAY. THE IKARIA FAMILY LIVES NEXT DOOR. WE SAW THE FIRE ...

There are signs deep beneath the Pacific Ocean that an exploding star once sent cosmic rays blasting out towards Earth, and ...

Zohran Mamdani is a killer. On June 24, he killed political advertising and branding as we know it. The rollout of his branding fired the shot heard round the world: stylish branding and viral organic ...

Most stars in the Milky Way move at steady speeds, orbiting the galactic center in regular paths. But astronomers have uncovered rare stars so fast they can escape the galaxy’s gravity altogether.

In a breakthrough study published in Nature Astronomy, researchers have discovered a new origin for some of the fastest stars ever observed: hypervelocity white dwarfs—compact stellar remnants ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The insides of a star are on full display thanks to an explosion. New research published this month in Nature is revealing the details of a star’s core. “This is the first time we have ...

An illustration of SN2021yfj enveloped in a layer of heavy elements during its supernova explosion W. M. Keck Observatory / Adam Makarenko In September 2021, Steve Schulze, an astrophysicist at ...

You might think of a star as a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace where hydrogen is turned into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees. But researchers recently reported that ...

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This powerful side-by-side comparison shows just how bright a star explosion is. Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope captured a before-and-after image of a star exploding brightly. With the images ...