In 2025, Rubin's 3.2-billion-pixel camera in Chile began watching the universe. 1 year later, it can trigger 7 million alerts a night in 40 secondsEvery forty seconds, the Vera Rubin Observatory captures fresh images of the sky, thanks to its state-of-the-art camera and data processing...
Just 548 light years from Earth, this massive red supergiant nearly 1,000 times larger than our Sun is about to explodeAstronomers have discovered Betelgeuse harbors a hidden stellar companion. This finding complicates predictions about its eventual supernov...
In 1967, US satellites searching for nuclear tests detected mysterious flashes from space. Decades later, scientists uncovered secrets of gamma-ray bursts, which can release more energy in 10 seconds than Sun will emit over its entire 10-billion-year lifetimeGamma-ray bursts, first detected accidentally in 1967, have long puzzled astronomers. Recent observations of their afterglows are now chall...
James Webb may have found the universe's first monster stars—and they could explain how giant black holes were bornNew research suggests Webb's mysterious red dots are colossal monster stars. These stars weigh up to 100,000 times the Sun's mass. Violent ...
Betelgeuse has a companion star, Siwarha. Astronomers confirm the dying red giant isn't alone. Here's what it meansBetelgeuse's companion star discovered explained its variable brightness. Astronomers have confirmed Betelgeuse, a famous night sky star, h...
A ghost particle hit Antarctica, and led scientists to a hidden galaxy 11 billion light-years awayHidden galaxy 11 billion light-years away: Scientists have identified a distant, dust-shrouded galaxy, nicknamed "Shadow Blaster," as the m...
NASA just discovered a living relic from the Milky Way’s earliest days hidden in plain sightNASA proved Terzan 5 is not a globular star cluster but a living fossil from the Milky Way's earliest formation. Webb and Hubble jointly re...
A tiny particle that landed in Antarctica led scientists to a hidden galaxy 11 billion light-years awayA ghost particle from Antarctica has led scientists to a hidden galaxy 11 billion light-years away, pointing to a new kind of cosmic neutri...
80,000-year-old Antarctic ice reveals radioactive stardust still falling on Earth. Is it dangerous?Scientists have detected iron-60, a radioactive isotope from ancient supernova explosions, in Antarctic ice up to 80,000 years old. This di...
The Star That Exploded Twice: How Gravitational Lensing Made a Supernova ReappearA distant supernova appeared to explode twice, baffling astronomers. This cosmic event was explained by Einstein's theory of general relati...
A 400-year-old explosion, one of the biggest humans have ever witnessed, seen over 25 years as NASA shows Kepler Supernova’s uneven expansionNASA has released its longest-ever time-lapse from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, capturing the expanding remains of Kepler’s Supernova, on...
Astronomers discover a new type of Supernova, revealing inner layers of a dying starAstronomers have identified a novel supernova, SN2021yfj, revealing the inner layers of a dying star. Located 2.2 billion light-years away,...
Researchers reveal important clues to understand the death of massive starsThey found that all three species of the neutrinos from the supernovae are important contrary to the common treatments with only two flavor...
- NASA's Hubble captured first image of surviving companion to supernova
Washington, April 27 (IANS) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first image of a surviving companion to a supernova, a compellin...
Supernova iron found on the MoonA star exploded in a supernova close to our solar system and its traces can still be found today in the form of an iron isotope found on th...
Most luminous supernova ever discoveredThe super-luminous supernova, called ASAS-SN-15lh, was discovered by the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae team (ASAS-SN).
- Hubble captures images of first-ever predicted supernova
The supernova, nicknamed Refsdal, has been spotted in the galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223.