Also known as the Christmas Star, the Star of Bethlehem appears in the Bible’s Gospel of Matthew, in which the disciple ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captures the mesmerizing galaxy LEDA 22057, home to a recent supernova explosion, SN 2024PI. This ...

An international team of astronomers has reported the discovery of a new pulsar, which received the designation PSR ...

An international team of researchers has made new observations of an unusual supernova, finding the most metal-poor stellar explosion ever observed. This rare supernova, called 2023ufx ...

Published recently in the journal Physical Review Letters, one paper proposes making use of a nearby supernova to study dark matter in detail. A supernova is an extremely dramatic event ...

Explore the dynamic life of the spiral galaxy NGC 337 as captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, featuring a mix of old and ...

Even if you knew nothing about astronomy, you’d understand that exploding stars are forceful and consequential events. How ...

The newfound pulsar, which is young and energetic, turns out to be associated with a supernova ... NGC 4496 in the constellation Virgo consists of two spiral galaxies, NGC 4496A (upper large ...

Dec. 20, 2024 — One of the biggest mysteries in science -- dark energy -- doesn't actually exist, according to researchers looking to solve the riddle of how the Universe is expanding. For the ...

The evolution of the supernova explosion is still being studied to this day, and what exactly happened from 2009 to 2012 remains a mystery. In a recent paper, published in Astronomy and ...

From mysterious dark matter to the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei, the past 12 months have reiterated just how strange ...