Astronomers have made a surprising discovery inside the remains of a giant star that exploded about 1,600 years ago. They ...

As America celebrates its 250th birthday, the spirit of exploration that once pushed pioneers across a continent is now ...

Millions of years ago two massive stars circled each other in a cosmic dance. Then one of the stars went supernova. The blast likely flung the exploded star’s companion across space, setting it adrift ...

Researchers confirm the universe's expansion is still accelerating, challenging previous claims of dark energy weakening and halting this growth.

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There are things in this Universe the human mind simply has a very hard time understanding. Like, say, a supernova explosion caused by a star reaching the end of its life, an event so massive that, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory has captured a dramatic scene about 26,000 light-years away from Earth. Scientists suspect it ...

If the supernova remnant is confirmed, it would be one of the closest to the supermassive black hole that lies in the center of the Milky Way NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory has captured a dramatic ...

Informed by science from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and astronomers worldwide, this “documentary that you can walk through” visualizes the cosmos in a 3-D introduction to the universe ...

For more than a century, cosmic rays have remained one of astronomy’s lingering puzzles. These tiny particles move through space carrying extraordinary amounts of energy, arriving from distant corners ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Jaspreet Singh Randhawa, a Mississippi State assistant professor of physics, has received a prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation to support a $700,000 ...

ABSTRACT: I find that the dust morphologies in some core-collapse supernova (CCSN) remnants (CCSNRs) possess jet-shaped morphologies, and propose that the properties of the jets that explode the CCSNe ...