A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow ...

Boffins are scratching their heads over another mysterious signal which is believed to have originated from the edge of the ...

Gamma rays are invisible and ultra-powerful forms of light. They are the most energetic source of radiation known in the ...

Black holes are not cosmic vacuum cleaners. They are among the universe’s most extreme objects - and come in different sizes.

Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...

REx reveals asteroid Bennu contains life's building blocks, shedding light on Earth's origins and the potential for extraterrestrial life.

A team of astronomers believe they've witnessed, for the first time, a star exploding in a mythical "superkilonova." ...

This composite image features X-ray, ultraviolet, optical, and near-infrared data of the luminous fast blue optical transient (LFBOT) named AT 2024wpp. The transient is the bright spot at the upper ...

When the most massive stars reach the ends of their lives, they blow up in spectacular supernova explosions, which seed the universe with heavy elements such as carbon and iron. Another type of ...

NRAO News reports on a new study in which astronomers have detected radio signals from a rare type of stellar explosion for the first time. The discovery was made using the U.S. National Science ...

What can imaging supernovae (plural for supernova) explosions teach astronomers about their behavior and physical characteristics? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to ...