Wa-hoo! One of the closest supernovas in years was discovered at a very early stage in the bright galaxy M101, the Pinwheel Galaxy, in Ursa Major. The galaxy can be found just above the Handle of the ...

Astronomers may have found an exciting new clue about dark energy—the mysterious force driving the universe’s accelerating expansion. They discovered an extraordinarily bright supernova from more than ...

Astrophysicists have identified the cause behind a super-bright supernova in a galaxy a billion light-years away, linking its ...

Astronomers have for the first time observed the birth of a magnetar, a highly magnetized, rapidly spinning neutron star, directly linked to some of the universe’s brightest exploding stars. This ...

A cosmic mystery surrounding the universe's most dazzling explosions, superluminous supernovas, appears to have been solved by scientists studying a colossal stellar event a billion light-years from ...

A before and after of the Pinwheel Galaxy, courtesy of observer and Unistellar College Astronomy Network member, Scott Kardel. July 11, 2023, Mountain View, CA - In an unprecedented achievement, ...

The tranquil spiral galaxy UGC 12295 basks leisurely in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy lies around 192 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces and is ...

Supernovae aren't one of the JWST's main science themes, but the perceptive telescope is full of surprises. Recently, it pinpointed a single star in a galaxy when the universe was only about 730 ...

Astronomy is increasingly becoming an online affair. Recent discoveries of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS and R2 SWAN have highlighted this fact, when both were first discussed on message boards and ...

The big picture: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently managed to capture imagery of the oldest and farthest known supernova explosion – an event that occurred when the universe was just 730 ...

Asrtronomers managed to pinpoint which star in the NGC 1637 galaxy turned into a supernova 40 million years ago, they used the Webb telescope.