For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to be true. Space is stretching faster today than in the past, and the precise ...

For more on 3I/ATLAS, Manesa Dhanabalan spoke with Laura Parker, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at McMaster University.

"This observation also demonstrates that we can use Webb to find individual stars when the universe was only 5% of its ...

The bright binary star system V Sagittae will flare up multiple times before finally going supernova within the next 100 ...

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

Eleven faculty members are receiving support for their work through this year’s Hellman Fellowships, and it comes right when ...

On Thursday, Dec. 4 and Sunday, Dec. 7, Outdoor Idaho aired a program about volunteer activity in Idaho. Among other ...

What can imaging supernovae (plural for supernova) explosions teach astronomers about their behavior and physical ...

Scientists say the best explanation for the longest gamma ray burst is that a black hole consumed a star, but they disagree ...

Four UC Nobel laureates on what they discovered here, why it matters, and why their world-changing work could only have ...

A Rutgers astrophysicist is helping to solve a cosmic puzzle that has astronomers scratching their heads. The mystery centers ...

Research records wind blasting out at 19% speed of light as X-ray burst from supermassive black hole rapidly igniting ...