What can an ancient supernova teach scientists about Earth and celestial objects? This is what a study recently published in ...

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An expanding universe complicates this picture just a little bit, because the universe absolutely refuses to be ...

Will the universe keep existing forever? An astrophysicist explains how scientists aren’t entirely sure, but they can make ...

Physicists have determined that most of the universe is dark matter -- invisible to us but affecting the universe anyway.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing ...

A new study casts doubt on the universe’s accelerating expansion, suggesting dark energy might be weakening over time.

Although these findings from JWST are yet to be confirmed, they mark the closest astronomers have come to locating the ...

Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a ...

The observations are the earliest yet of a supernova, revealing in detail the moment that the shockwave obliterated the star.

Scientists have observed for the first time the very early stages of a supernova, with a massive star exploding in a distinctive olive-like shape. The researchers used the European Southern ...