People sometimes ask what would happen if the Sun suddenly exploded, often after seeing a dramatic film or picture online. It ...

At first, there was nothing dramatic about the galaxy. ESO 130 G012 sits relatively close by cosmic standards, about 55 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured new imagery of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. It is 11,000 light-years away in ...

Contrary to popular belief, our universe may not be constantly expanding after all. A groundbreaking study by South Korean ...

The universe has likely shifted from a period of acceleration to a phase of deceleration, new study by Korean researchers ...

Some of the most coveted metals on the planet are not just expensive, they are almost unimaginably scarce in Earth's crust ...

Oxygen detected just 300 million years after the Big Bang has caused viral claims that cosmology is wrong. But does this ...

The new paper argues that, in SN 1181, the first phase of the supernova fizzled out and left behind an unusually active ...

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

An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the journal Science Advances. It suggests that when our solar system formed, a ...

Earlier this year, a powerful gamma-ray burst traveled through space from a very distant source in the cosmos. The explosion was traced back to the early universe, just millions of years after the Big ...