NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to revolutionize our understanding of the universe. The telescope’s High-Latitude Time-Domain Survey aims to capture 100,000 cosmic explosions, ...

An international team of astrophysicists, led by Northwestern University and the University of Leicester in England, has ...

Most of the universe is made up of hydrogen and helium atoms, which came into being after the Big Bang cooled down a little. Heavier atoms are formed during high-energy collisions in stars.

Astronomers have made an astonishing revelation: the red supergiant Betelgeuse, one of the most studied stars in the night ...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is set to embark on a deep-sky survey that could capture nearly 100,000 cosmic explosions, ...

It took about 50 exploding stars to upend cosmology. Researchers mapped and measured light from Type Ia supernovae, the ...

It's around 1.6 times the mass of the Sun, Howell and his colleagues believe, at an orbital separation of 4 astronomical ...

Neutrinos are among the most mysterious particles in the universe. They are extremely light, travel close to the speed of ...

Astronomers have just solved a long-standing mystery about a rare, rapidly spinning neutron star known as PSR J1023+0038.

Supernovas, kilonovas, gamma-ray bursts... oh my! The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will uncover 100,000 of these ...

Roman’s deep, time-lapse survey may reveal a hundred thousand stellar cataclysms, from distant Type Ia supernovae to the self ...

Using the world's most advanced radio telescopes, astronomers have discovered a spinning dead star so rare, strange and ...