Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been ...
Astronomers report a strange cosmic blast that looked like a kilonova, then behaved like a supernova, hinting at a possible first “superkilonova” and leaving scientists debating how stars truly die.
The combination of a supernova and a kilonova may have produced a rare space explosion that astronomers have never seen ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has caught what appears to be the earliest supernova humanity has ever seen, a stellar death ...
Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the ...
When the most massive stars reach the ends of their lives, they blow up in spectacular supernova explosions, which seed the ...
Astronomers are witnessing a celestial drama unfold in the V Sagittae star system, located 10,000 light-years away. A dense ...
Astronomers using the NSF Very Large Array report the first radio detection of a rare Type Ibn supernova, revealing how a massive star lost helium-rich material in the years before its explosion ...
Columbia Professor Brian Metzger helped other astronomers interpret their observations of the unexpected stellar event.
BASED on findings published in Astronomy & Astrophysics in December and further reported by Keith Cooper for Space.com, ...
A double blast of dying stars may be the first observed case of a long-hypothesized, never proven “superkilonova.” Although ...
Yu-Jing Qin, a postdoctoral researcher at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), led a series of spectroscopic ...