Astronomy is increasingly becoming an online affair. Recent discoveries of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS and R2 SWAN have ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured imagery of supernova 2018 GV from 2018-2019. It was seen in barred spiral galaxy NGC 2525 ...

High school students could breeze past this 10-question general knowledge quiz but the real challenge is seeing whether you ...

The observatory’s work is far from trivial. It captures gamma-ray, X-ray, ultraviolet, and optical data in real time, studying black holes, supernovae, neutron stars, and other cosmic phenomena.

Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...

In a time without telescopes, the appearance of a new star in the night sky was a disconcerting event full of meaning. Today, those same historical records, meticulously noted by chroniclers and poets ...

Listening to Chuquimamani-Condori bombard Faith Hill’s “Breathe” with kullawada drums and meteoric explosions, drowning that ...

"2Way" hosts Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, and Dan Turrentine discuss the response to the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. "I'll just say a huge project that's immediate now, because ...

Most stars in the Milky Way move at steady speeds, orbiting the galactic center in regular paths. But astronomers have uncovered rare stars so fast they can escape the galaxy’s gravity altogether.

A new AI-powered tool has reduced astronomers' workload by 85%—filtering through thousands of data alerts to identify the few genuine signals caused by supernovae (powerful explosions from dying stars ...

A key mystery about Type Ia supernovas is that, in the dominant theory known as D6, a white dwarf would need a companion star in order to explode. This so-called D6 scenario is shorthand for ...