Claire North, whose space opera Slow Gods is the July read for the New Scientist Book Club, discusses how a population might ...

Dr. Shing-Chi Leung, assistant professor of physics at SUNY Polytechnic Institute, has published the article "Primordial ...

If the supernova remnant is confirmed, it would be one of the closest to the supermassive black hole that lies in the center ...

Chandra X-ray telescope imagery of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant has been time-lapsed to show 25 years of growth. Credit: ...

That, at least, is what astronomers believe may have happened to a newly identified pair of stellar remnants. Using ...

NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory has captured a dramatic scene about 26,000 light-years away from Earth. Scientists suspect it could be a supernova remnant, the violent shock wave and cloud of ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray spacecraft has detected the supernova wreckage of a dead star that erupted 1,700 years ago and ejected debris at 2 million miles per hour.

For the first time, astronomers have captured the breathtaking moment of a supernova explosion. This cosmic event reveals the ...

A new AI-powered framework could transform how astronomers measure the expansion of the Universe. By analyzing images of Type ...

The New Scientist Book Club’s read for July is Claire North’s space opera Slow Gods. In this extract from its second chapter, ...

Neutrinos are all but undetectable, but without their influence on exploding stars, Earth itself might not exist.

Astronomers have discovered a superluminous supernova drawing energy from a surrounding glowing structure, challenging current understanding of extreme events.