About 3 billion years ago, the star was pulled into the gravitational confrontation of two giant black holes — and now ...

A new explanation for the solar system's radioactive elements suggests Earth-like planets might be found orbiting up to 50 ...

Minister for Environment and Climate Change Mosese Bulitavu says Pacific Island nations are confronting increasingly severe ...

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

An international team of astronomers, led by SRON, discovered a rapid explosion of matter around the supermassive black hole ...

Previously, the most ancient supernova ever confirmed dated back to when the universe was 1.8 billion years old.

Astronomers imaged two novae only days after eruption. They used the CHARA Array in California for clarity. The system captured expanding material around each erupting star.

Most scientists agree the prolonged flash likely occurred when a black hole ate a star, but two other ideas can't be ruled ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope discovers the oldest supernova ever seen, offering insights into early universe star formation ...

The Cassiopeia A supernova remnant reveals that massive exploding stars can forge far more of life's essential ingredients ...

US President Donald Trump has criticised European leaders as “weak” and suggested the US could scale back support for Ukraine.

Astronomers have spotted the longest gamma-ray burst ever seen, a cosmic explosion that lasted seven hours — and they ...