CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The death of a massive nearby star billions of years ago offers evidence the sun was born in a star cluster, say astronomers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Rather ...

In 2018, a patch of sky 11 billion light-years away suddenly exploded with light. Researchers thought the galaxy looked ...

As astronomers have learned more about the tumultuous and unforgiving nature of the universe, we've been comforted to know that there are no stars in our cosmic backyard threatening to go supernova.

Is there anything more dramatic than an exploding star? More than just extraordinarily bright, energetic events that can ...

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"No low-frequency radio image of the entire Southern Galactic Plane has been published before, making this an exciting ...

This supernova is a Type II, Quimby said in a statement, because it contains hydrogen. Most Type II supernovae are thought to result when the cores of massive stars, those seven to eight times or more ...

A small, bright object that first flared up in June could be the brightest, most powerful supernova ever spotted by astronomers. If it is indeed a supernova, the object ASASSN-15lh pushes the upper ...

Everyone knows that projectors plus daylight usually equals a crappy picture, and there isn’t much to do about it besides boarding up your windows or building a fancy home theatre—until now. The ...