Researchers link two ancient mass extinctions to nearby supernova explosions, which may have damaged Earth's atmosphere and ...

While investigating the impact of a recent supernova on life on Earth, a team of UCSC astronomers found an intriguing ...

Astronomers have found a pair of chunky white dwarf stars—think of them as superdense stellar leftovers—spinning closely ...

Here's an observers' guide to the newly discovered Comet 2025 F2 (SWAN), which is visible in northern skies right now.

Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope discovered that a planet fell into its star rather than being consumed by ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) has captured a stunning view of supernova remnant ...

A pair of white dwarfs, located just 150 light-years from Earth, appears doomed to die in a type 1a supernova that will shine ...

Leading this quest is the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a global collaboration that maps the universe's 3D large-scale structure by measuring redshifts of tens of millions of celestial ...

The edge of a nearby stellar nursery called NGC 3324, found at the northwest corner of the Carina Nebula, forms the 'mountains' and 'valleys' spanning this image captured by the James Webb Space ...

Leading this quest is the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a global collaboration involving over 70 institutions.

NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope "detected none of the high-energy gamma-ray light" from a nearby supernova. NASA explains. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Discover the intriguing space explosion predicted in a rare double white dwarf system just 160 light-years away from Earth.