When the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton pointed its telescope at two unidentified sources of light in the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud, scientists were able to confirm what seemed an ...

A blast of radio waves from the outskirts of an ancient galaxy challenges theories about what creates such bursts.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures stunning image of supernova SN 2022aajn, helping astronomers measure cosmic distances ...

"The high explosion energy of AT 2023adsv could indicate that the properties of supernova explosions might have been different in the early universe." ...

Astronomers discover an unusual neutron star that emits double pulses, challenging theories about stellar remnants.

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted one ... while their metal-rich outer layers were blasted away in supernova explosions. This process seeded clouds of hydrogen and helium in the first ...

As soon as a star is born, it starts fighting a battle with gravity. A burning star constantly releases enough energy to counteract gravity’s inward pressure. But once its fuel runs out, gravity ...

However, there’s a catch. Before electrons can be accelerated by these shock waves, they need to contain a certain amount of energy to begin with. Nobody knows how electrons gain this initial energy.

The sun, a searing hot sphere of gas primarily composed of hydrogen and helium, boasts surface and outer atmospheric temperatures ... pull and drift into space as solar wind.

If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...