Astronomy is increasingly becoming an online affair. Recent discoveries of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS and R2 SWAN have highlighted this fact, when both were first discussed on message boards and ...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary celestial system containing a runaway pulsar fleeing the scene of a massive stellar supernova explosion. What makes this system even more spectacular is ...

NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope "detected none of the high-energy gamma-ray light" from a nearby supernova. NASA explains. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

On Sept. 20, 2016, Victor Buso was testing a new camera in his rooftop observatory. Buso, an amateur astronomer from Rosario, Argentina, shot a series of images of spiral galaxy NGC 613, which is ...

Astronomers have witnessed a rare “extremely stripped supernova” that exposed the inner silicon layers of a dying star, confirming theories of stellar fusion and offering new insight into how ...

Today, let's talk about some jaw-dropping phenomena in the universe! Recently, there has been a significant discovery in the field of astronomy related to black hole accretion disks and supernova ...

In May 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were testing how radio waves bounced off balloon satellites developed by Bell ...

Recently, a jaw-dropping discovery has emerged in the field of astronomy — the accretion disks of black holes are intricately linked to the luminosity differences observed in supernova explosions.

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 ...

Sagittarius unveils stellar wonders, from the Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae showcasing the Milky Way’s breathtaking cycle of cosmic creation.

New radio astronomy results reveal how galaxies exchange gas with the intergalactic medium – the raw material for stars and ...