A recent study of supernova SN 2024bch challenges traditional understanding of stellar deaths and supernovas, suggesting a different energy mechanism called Bowen fluorescence.

This revelation means scientists might have to rethink Type II supernova models, which would result in some of these cosmic ...

A new radio portrait of the Milky Way blends big-picture and high-detail surveys, exposing star nurseries, supernova debris, ...

The first voice you hear on "Ninja," the first track on “UY SCUTI,” is not Young Thug's. It is a voice inside a courtroom, insisting “he is the one that we're all afraid of," warning the judge that he ...

Researchers from Curtin University node of the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) created the image.

Astronomers observed the fading light of supernova SN 2025kg, which followed the fast X-ray transient (FXT) named EP 250108a.

V Sagittae’s violent mass transfer hints at an imminent nova—and a future supernova visible from Earth. Binary star systems are fairly common in the universe, as are pairs where one star is a compact ...

So much happened in the earliest moments of the universe. Elementary particles appeared, the first nuclei of hydrogen and ...

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than images from ground-based telescopes. In August of that year, Hubble made one of ...

A new international study sheds light on some of the most mysterious particles in the cosmos - neutrinos, the "ghosts” of ...

Physicists have been chasing one of the universe’s strangest mysteries—neutrinos, nearly invisible particles that zip through ...

In a remarkable cosmic event, astronomers have detected a black hole-star merger that has resulted in the longest gamma-ray ...