A rare supernova whose light traveled more than 10 billion years to reach Earth is offering astronomers an unexpected opportunity to probe one of cosmology’s biggest mysteries. The explosion, known as ...

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Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of researchers has discovered chemical fingerprints from enormous ...

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The Milky Way’s centre looks nothing like the calm band of starlight you see from a dark hillside. In a new, ultra-wide radio mosaic, the region turns into a tangle of cold, threadlike gas structures.

Ukrainian forces struck infrastructure at the Tikhoretsk oil pumping station in Russia's Krasnodar Krai, one of the largest ...

Astronomers have discovered that the birth of neutron stars with magnetic fields trillions of times stronger than Earth's magnetosphere is the "magic trick" behind superbright supernovas.

New studies reveal how metallicity and stellar evolution determine whether massive stars expand into red supergiants prior to Type II supernova explosions.

Astronomers may have found an exciting new clue about dark energy—the mysterious force driving the universe’s accelerating expansion. They discovered an extraordinarily bright supernova from more than ...

The discovery of a newborn magnetar inside a distant supernova helps explain why some stellar explosions shine far brighter ...