Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe saw a "new and unusual star" in the November 1572 sky. He called it a new star, or "stella nova". This astronomical event changed the way the scientific world viewed the ...

The bright, red star Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion has shown some unexpected behaviour. In late 2019 and 2020 it became fainter than we had ever seen it – at least in records going back more ...

How common are Earth-like planets in the universe? When I started working on supernova explosions, I never imagined that my ...

The creation of dust in spiral galaxies like the Milky Way has been attributed to exploding stars, but most dust in elliptical galaxies may come from a different type of supernova. Jack Knudson is an ...

A green "Grinch-like" shape in a supernova remnant imaged by the James Webb telescope may have come from a blast debris field, scientists proposed When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Cambridge, MA – Since Galileo first pointed a telescope at the sky 400 years ago, a myriad of technological advances have allowed astronomers to look at very faint objects, very distant objects, and ...