Several telescopes used to observe the supernova SN Zwicky which was magnified nearly 25 times by a foreground galaxy acting ...

Nowadays, scientists armed with sophisticated telescopes witness many supernovas every year, but they have all been distant ...

The very moment a star is destroyed has been captured for the first time. Observers witnessed the instant a powerful ...

Observing the Universe often means contemplating phenomena that occurred millions of years ago. But sometimes, the ...

Astronomers observed a white dwarf and subdwarf 4,000 light-years away, spiralling toward collision, testing Einstein's ...

The Milky Way contains more than 100 billion stars, each following its own evolutionary path through birth, life, and ...

A research team in Japan has created a groundbreaking Milky Way simulation that follows more than 100 billion stars with a level of detail that was once thought impossible.

NASA has discovered CWISE J1249, a mysterious red celestial object moving at over one million miles per hour through the ...

A new study reveals that the Pleiades is the core of a once-much-larger cluster, many of whose members have scattered to the ...

For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

Astronomers have studied two sources created in Cairo in the Middle Ages: the poem by Ibn Sana al-Mulk, dedicated to the famous Sultan Saladin and dated 1181-1182, as well as the chronicle of the ...

No Joel Embiid for the 76ers. No Giannis Antetokounmpo for the Bucks. A marquee matchup stripped of its former MVPs often ...