Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you, wait a minute, why are you twinkling so much? Um, guys, that's no ...

A new explanation for the solar system's radioactive elements suggests Earth-like planets might be found orbiting up to 50 per cent of sun-like stars ...

How common are Earth-like planets in the universe? When I started working on supernova explosions, I never imagined that my ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

Supernova is about to happen as the two stars colliding each other will create a bright light visible from the Earth.

This artist's impression shows, about 22 million light-years away, the supernova SN 2024ggi exploding in the galaxy NGC 3621. (ESO/L. Calçada via SWNS) By Dean Murray Scientists have revealed for the ...

Astronomers have utilized a cosmic magnifying glass to observe SN 2025wny, an ultrabright supernova located approximately 10 billion light-years away from Earth.

TL;DR: Northwestern University astrophysicists have made a discovery that challenges current models of stellar evolution. Leading an international team, the researchers detected a previously unseen ...

An exploding star may have sent cosmic shrapnel flying to hit Earth 10 million years ago, and astronomers have now narrowed down the most likely culprits behind this interstellar incident. Earlier ...

Francis Thackeray has received funding from the National Research Foundation. Global cooling that happened millions of years ago was thought to be the result of ocean currents. He suggests instead it ...