Using artificial intelligence, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences, ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

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

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

Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a ...

The observations are the earliest yet of a supernova, revealing in detail the moment that the shockwave obliterated the star.

A stronomers have been able to catch the earliest phases of supernova explosions with one of the most powerful observatories ...