James Webb has spotted the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding just 730 million years after the Big Bang, offering ...

The discs of hot gas around binary stars and black holes are much, much bigger than scientists had previously thought. This new illustration shows the disc around a super-dense white dwarf star. The ...

ERIE, Pa. (AP) — Police were investigating after a 3-year-old Pennsylvania boy was burned by an exploding space heater. Erie police say fire crews were called just before 5 a.m. Thursday. They found ...

The entire fleet of SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rockets has been officially grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration, pending an investigation into an upper stage icing over and experiencing a ...

What can imaging supernovae (plural for supernova) explosions teach astronomers about their behavior and physical characteristics? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to ...

Mysterious flashes of radio waves from space might be caused by interstellar asteroids and comets crashing into neutron stars. Astronomers detected the first fast radio burst (FRB) in 2007, and ...