One small step for Sydney Sweeney, one giant leap for fashion. The actress launched a style supernova at her space-themed birthday bash, dressing in a dazzling star-spangled mini dress. Sweeney’s ...

V Sagittae is a white dwarf star 10,000 light-years from Earth about to explode The star orbits a companion every 12.3 hours while drawing closer together V Sagittae's brightness comes from the white ...

An international team of astronomers has conducted detailed multicolor photometric and spectroscopic observations of SN 2022xlp—a type Iax supernova. Results of the observational campaign, published ...

In addition to revealing characteristics of mysterious particles called neutrinos, the massive DUNE experiment could help astronomers find a supernova right as it begins. At this very moment, ...

An illustration of SN2021yfj enveloped in a layer of heavy elements during its supernova explosion W. M. Keck Observatory / Adam Makarenko In September 2021, Steve Schulze, an astrophysicist at ...

Astronomers have observed what they are calling a new type of supernova, which has provided an unparalleled glimpse into what happens deep within a star just before it explodes. A study detailing the ...

The rare blast peeled back the inner layers of a dying star, offering clues to how the elements that make up life on Earth were forged. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Carl Sagan once said we are all made of ...

On September 6, 2021, Steve Schulze, a researcher at Northwestern University, was on the lookout for fresh supernovas when he came across a strange explosion that left behind an extremely exposed ...

The Zwicky Transient Facility, which scans the sky from the Palomar Observatory in Southern California, first detected the strange supernova in July 2023. Credit: Palomar Observatory / Caltech ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what appears to be a new type of supernova, as ...