In 1181 AD, a bright "guest star" was observed to linger in the sky for around six months. Nearly 850 years later, the likely ...

PD Dr Philipp Girichidis at Heidelberg University’s Centre for Astronomy provide insights into our place in the Milky Way and ...

That star at the center of our Solar System, that superhot ball of plasma that gives us heat and energy, and amazing ...

Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the night sky and a familiar landmark in the constellation Orion. It has also ...

Astronomers analyzed AT 2024wpp, the brightest LFBOT observed, confirming a black hole shredded a companion star, producing high-energy blue, ultraviolet, X-ray, and radio emissions.

For Earth to be born, our solar system needed certain isotopes which could only be formed by supernovae. But, shouldn't such ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...

People sometimes ask what would happen if the Sun suddenly exploded, often after seeing a dramatic film or picture online. It ...

The new paper argues that, in SN 1181, the first phase of the supernova fizzled out and left behind an unusually active ...

NASA have released a photograph capturing a vivid image of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy just 160,000 light-years away ...

A team of astronomers believe they've witnessed, for the first time, a star exploding in a mythical "superkilonova." ...

James Webb has spotted the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding just 730 million years after the Big Bang, offering ...