When the most massive stars reach the ends of their lives, they blow up in spectacular supernova explosions, which seed the ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been produced by the explosion of a massive star just 730 million years after the Big ...

The flash was spotted on March 14 by a French-Chinese space telescope called SVOM, which launched last year on a mission to track gamma-ray bursts, the brightest and most powerful explosions in the ...

One such occasion occurred earlier in 2025, when NASA scientists reported sightings of a supernova that exploded when the ...

A Rutgers astrophysicist is helping to solve a cosmic puzzle that has astronomers scratching their heads. The mystery centers ...

A new explanation for the solar system's radioactive elements suggests Earth-like planets might be found orbiting up to 50 ...

An immensely powerful flash detected earlier this year was created by a massive star exploding when the universe was just ...

For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to ...

Columbia Professor Brian Metzger helped other astronomers interpret their observations of the unexpected stellar event.

Yu-Jing Qin, a postdoctoral researcher at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), led a series of spectroscopic ...

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Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope spotted huge stars leaking nitrogen in an early galaxy, hinting that such ...