A 'prelude to a supernova' is how NASA describes this stunning new James Webb Space Telescope image of Wolf-Rayet Star WR 124 ...

Considering the immense size of the universe, it's no surprise that space still holds plenty of secrets for us. Recently, ...

A faint radio "whisper" from ancient hydrogen reveals the universe was heating up long before it filled with starlight.

A study looking at ancient texts may have found evidence of a galactic supernova in a poem praising Saladin, the first sultan of Egypt and Syria, written between December 1181 and May 1182 CE. The ...

The spacecraft in question are NASA’s Europa Clipper, going to the eponymous icy moon of Jupiter, and the European Space ...

New X-ray observations reveal Betelgeuse’s mysterious companion is not a collapsed stellar remnant but a young, Sun-like ...

NASA states It’s a protostar (a young star gathering mass from its environment) surrounded by a massive planet-forming disc.

On July 2, 2025, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM) captured around three hours' worth of signals that appeared ...

Researchers have identified a massive red supergiant on the brink of supernova in images from the James Webb Space Telescope, ...

Astronomers spot a red supergiant star hidden in dust just before it exploded, solving a long-standing mystery about missing ...