In a groundbreaking cosmic revelation, astronomers have captured the first visual evidence of a dying star erupting in a rare ...

Based on the new model, the first of these white dwarf explosions isn’t due for at least 10 1100 years. That’s a 1 followed by 1,100 zeros—a number so big that we don’t have a name for it ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

Pictures of a distant supernova remnant show two concentric rings, providing clear evidence that exploding white dwarf stars ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have instead ...

An artist’s impression of a tidal disruption event, in which a star is spaghettified and the remains form an accretion disk around the black hole. Typically, about half the star’s mass is drawn into ...

New findings about intermediate-mass black holes could shed light on some of the universe’s more mysterious components. In a recently published paper, a group of scientists have found new evidence of ...