Deaths of nearby massive stars may have played a significant role in triggering at least two mass extinction events in ...
But it's not going to hurt us. Betelgeuse is the shoulder of Orion, a red giant sitting about 500 light years away. It's huge ...
The most dangerous parts of a supernova explosion are the outputs like X-rays and gamma rays. Even though they only share a ...
The universe is ballooning outward at an ever-faster clip under the power of an unknown force dubbed dark energy. One of the ...
The car-sized Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Camera that was recently installed on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is ...
Behold the mysterious objects populating the "low surface brightness universe" that the latest radio telescopes are beginning ...
As it nears 35 consecutive years of space service, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken another look at a famous ...
The agency’s Hubble Night Sky Challenge, coordinated with the Astronomical ... They include M1, also known as the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant that has provided new insight into what happens ...
The legendary Hubble Space Telescope has turned its gaze to the Ursa Major-adjacent galaxy UGC 5460, revealing spiral arms, ...