Using Georgia State’s CHARA Array, an international team of scientists has uncovered unexpected complexity in how stars ...

James Webb has spotted the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding just 730 million years after the Big Bang, offering ...

Astrophysicists have achieved an eye-opening leap in understanding stellar death, capturing unprecedented, detailed images of two exploding stars that demonstrate these blasts are far more complicated ...

Learn about what may be the first ever superkilonova ever observed, emitting gravitational waves that hint at the collision of two dead stars.

The John N. Bahcall Lecture Series Presenter: Robert Kirshner, Clowes Professor of Science, Harvard University Exploding stars halfway across the universe show that the expansion of the universe is ...

What can imaging supernovae (plural for supernova) explosions teach astronomers about their behavior and physical characteristics? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to ...

A space explosion detected this summer burned for days on end, making it the longest and most unusual gamma-ray burst ever seen. Gamma-ray bursts are the universe’s most powerful explosions. They ...

For more than two years, SpaceX has been conducting tests of its massive Starship spacecraft from Starbase, its company town in South Texas. SpaceX, founded by billionaire Elon Musk, appears to have ...

Astronomers tracked a gamma-ray burst lasting over 7 hours, unseen in visible light, from a dusty galaxy 8 billion light-years away, challenging existing models and raising new questions for science.