Discover the explosive end of a star's life—supernovas. Learn what causes these cosmic events and their impact with ...

Credit: MARK GARLICK via Astronomers have watched a massive star vanish in the night sky, only to be replaced by a black ...

From celestial fireworks caused by exploding stars to mesmerizing mosaics of distant nebulae, check out these 7 stunning ...

It was studied along with other galaxies like the nearby NGC 3109, shown above, to learn how galaxies form, as part of a project called The VLT Survey Telescope Survey of Mass Assembly and Structural ...

This mid-infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope excels at showing where the cold dust, set off in white, glows ...

Princeton University graduate student Jiaxuan Li (李嘉轩) was part of a team seeking dwarf galaxies orbiting the spiral galaxy ...

The James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope recently released a chilling view of two spiral galaxies, IC ...

This image shows a young cluster of stars called NGC 346, which are more than 200,000 ... getting ready to go supernova. The star, called WR 124, is about 30 times the size of the Sun and is ...

To estimate how close a supernova would have to be to cause serious damage to Earth, we must first look at a supernova's destructive capabilities. When the bright star Betelgeuse explodes ...

One of the most famous galaxies in the collection is the so-called "Southern Pinwheel" galaxy, also known as NGC 5236 or M83.

Nov. 13, 2024 — Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — The temperature of elementary particles has been observed in the radioactive glow following the collision of two neutron stars and the birth of a black hole. This has, for the ...