This Star Is About To Explode!

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe a distant galaxy merger called CRISTAL-02. CRISTAL-02 is losing ...

Informed by science from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and astronomers worldwide, this “documentary that you can walk through” visualizes the cosmos in a 3-D introduction to the universe ...

For more than a century, cosmic rays have remained one of astronomy’s lingering puzzles. These tiny particles move through space carrying extraordinary amounts of energy, arriving from distant corners ...

A trailer loaded with fireworks erupted in flames along a Tennessee interstate Saturday night, sending pyrotechnics shooting across the roadway and forcing authorities to temporarily shut down traffic ...

Universe Today reports on new research about black holes and missing mass ranges. The article explains how gravitational waves, first detected in 2015, help scientists study black hole mergers and ...

WASHINGTON — A supernova, the explosive death of a star, is always violent, blasting material into space while typically leaving behind a compact stellar remnant like a neutron star or black hole. But ...

The fighting continues in the Middle East, and oil’s back on the move, as the clock ticks on President Donald Trump’s five-day deadline for resolving differences with Iran. That’s the backdrop for ...

An exploding supernova can outshine an entire galaxy. Black holes devour matter and generate enough light to be seen across the universe. Violent processes far away can propel cosmic ray protons to ...

Artist’s conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk that is wobbling, or precessing, because of the effects of general relativity. Some models of magnetars suggest that high-speed jets ...

Artist’s conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk that is wobbling, or precessing, because of the effects of general relativity. Some models of magnetars suggest that high-speed jets ...

This is a massive star that exploded 35,000 years ago, and the deep-sky image just won an award – a first in the prestigious competition When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...