Isolated by mountains along the East African Rift is Lake Tanganyika. More than 400 miles long, it is the continent's deepest ...

The European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has identified what's causing mysterious lights in the outskirts of ...

An international team of astronomers has investigated a newly detected Type II supernova designated SN 2024jlf. The new study ...

An international research team led by the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has made significant ...

A team of researchers has found an unusual spike in beryllium-10 levels in the Pacific seabed, dating back 10 million years.

A vast cosmic explosion left behind an intricate masterpiece in the sky — delicate pink and orange filaments dancing in the ...

An illustration shows a neutron star surrounded by green magnetic field lines in the fiery shell of supernova wreckage from its birth. | Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) Out in the universe ...

There is a lot of complicated but beautiful physics in understanding how this explosion takes place,” says Purdue University astronomer Danny Milisavljevic, who led the team behind the JWST images.

One such discovery was the identification of the most distant so-called core-collapse supernova ever confirmed. These explosions mark the end of life for massive stars, and this supernova occurred ...

A new study led by recent undergraduate student Caitlyn Nojiri and co-authored by astronomy and astrophysics professor Enrico ...

"When a star dies, it can explode in a supernova, causing a strong shock wave and forming an interstellar object called a supernova remnant," wrote an international team of scientists in a paper ...