For the first time, astronomers have spotted a star that exploded not once, but twice. A new image of a roughly 300-year-old supernova provides visual evidence that some dying stars undergo a double ...

Scientists discover a radioactive spike of beryllium-10 (10Be) in Pacific Ocean sediments, revealing ancient climatic and ...

Every night, as telescopes around the world open their domes to study the cosmos, astronomers are forced to contend with an ...

A Magnetar is one of the most fascinating and terrifying objects in the universe. Known as the most powerful magnet in existence, a magnetar has a magnetic field that is billions of times stronger ...

We’ll have telescopes in our pockets that are smarter than Hubble." The not-so-good: "AI is bringing a golden age of ...

Can one discuss winning an “AI race” without the invitation of the nation’s most historic space agency to the starting gate?

Astronomers have detected the signal of a colossal black hole in deep space that likely formed when two already-large black ...

Using the largest catalog of exploding white dwarf vampire stars ever gathered has provided further evidence that dark energy ...

Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

It took about 50 exploding stars to upend cosmology. Researchers mapped and measured light from Type Ia supernovae, the ...

An international team of astrophysicists, led by Northwestern University and the University of Leicester in England, has ...