One of the great mysteries of the Universe is where all the metal actually comes from. We know it's forged in cosmic fire – but which fires in particular, and in which proportions, is a little bit ...

The CosmicWatch device costs only $100 to make, making it accessible for both high school students and spacecraft operators.

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old. The event was first signaled by a gamma-ray burst and later confirmed ...

On the evening of Sunday, January 12, the SaddleBrooke Skygazers Astronomy Club will present Christa DeCoursey, a fourth-year PhD student at the University of Arizona and a member of the James Webb ...

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

Alex Filippenko is the kind of guy who brings a telescope to a party. True to form, at a soiree on May 18 this year, he wowed his hosts with images of star clusters and colorful galaxies — including ...

You’d think that supernovae – the death throes of massive stars and among the brightest, most powerful explosions in the universe – would be hard to miss. Yet the number of these blasts observed in ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can explode not once, but twice before fading forever. Using the European Southern ...

What can imaging supernovae (plural for supernova) explosions teach astronomers about their behavior and physical characteristics? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to ...

Scientists have revealed for the first time a jaw-dropping early view of an exploding supernova. Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed ...

Humankind has long turned to the skies in search of answers. Accounts of supernovae – exploding stars – go back thousands of years, but while we know today that these events create the building blocks ...

The universe is almost 13.8 billion years old, but every now and then, astronomers detect echoes from its distant past. One such occasion occurred earlier in 2025, when NASA scientists reported ...