Meteorites can act as time capsules, preserving molecules from the solar system’s infancy. Certain fingerprints have been detected in these ancient space rocks that suggest a supernova went off right ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what appears to be a new type of supernova, as stellar ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured some bizarre imagery of an exploding star that, for some reason, kept repeating itself. In a press release, NASA said that new Webb images of what ...

When Beetlejuice goes off, it's going to be the show of a lifetime. But it's not going to hurt us. Betelgeuse is the shoulder of Orion, a red giant sitting about 500 light years away. It's huge, ...

Stars are thought to form within enormous filaments of molecular gas. Regions where one or more of these filaments meet, known as hubs, are where massive stars form. These massive stars, located ...

The protocol used to find these young supernova explosions could be used on data from the upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory. The early stages of a supernova explosion are revelatory in what they can ...