Astronomers have, for the first time, recorded the moment a star’s explosion broke through its surface. The nearby supernova, ...

The supernova was the death of a red supergiant star 500 times larger than the sun, in a galaxy just 22 million light-years ...

Science popularizer Angel Molina, an expert in astronomy and astrophotography, explained on his TikTok channel what a ...

The Eastern Veil Nebula is part of a colossal supernova remnant known as the Cygnus Loop. Dutch astrophotographer Cornelis ...

Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you, wait a minute, why are you twinkling so much? Um, guys, that's no ...

Many in the South Okanagan and beyond are mourning the death of lauded and award-winning Canadian astronomer Jack B. Newton.

When a star explodes, it expands at high speed. What a supernova looks like immediately after its onset was therefore unknown ...

Astronomers have recently made a groundbreaking discovery, revealing the surprising hidden geometry of a supernova. This ...

A University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa astronomer helped pull off a cosmic first: mapping the three‑dimensional shape of a star’s ...

A long-held dream in astronomy has finally come into reach, and it carries a surprising emotional weight. For years, ...

Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the blast was breaking through the star’s surface. For ...

Chris Ashall, an assistant astronomer at the UH Mānoa Institute for Astronomy, was part of the global team that zeroed in on the stellar explosion known as SN 2024ggi. The supernova was first spotted ...