GRB 250314A is an ancient cosmic cataclysm caught by JWST's keen infrared eye. And it appears a lot like those that happen ...

New research suggests that binary stars don't just live together; they die together too. When you purchase through links on ...

A strange "chirping" signal from a distant supernova has revealed the birth of a magnetar, confirming that these incredibly magnetic neutron stars can power the universe's brightest stellar explosions ...

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 gas faster than it is creating stars, which could halt future star formation.

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 ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old. The event was first signaled by a gamma-ray burst and later confirmed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...