Astronomers have detected the first “heartbeat” of a newborn star within a cosmic explosion, revealing a rapidly spinning ...

Our readers agree that in the unlikely event you were able to approach a neutron star, it would look very smooth and bright ...

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...

The hydrogen bomb, unlike the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima, generates energy through fusion by fusing isotopes of hydrogen, ...

When space telescopes blazed with high-energy radiation for hours earlier this year, astronomers suspected that they were ...

Astronomers recorded the longest gamma-ray burst in history, GRB 250702B, that may be a cosmic event completely new to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a massive red supergiant star just before it exploded, finally solving a cosmic ...

A Northwestern University-led team of astronomers has captured the most detailed glimpse yet of a doomed star before it ...

By combining Webb’s infrared data with older Hubble Space Telescope images, scientists traced the explosion, known as ...

According to theory, massive red supergiant stars should cause most supernovae, yet they are rarely observed. New James Webb ...