Rocky Planets May Have Started Forming Just 100 Million Years after Big Bang
New simulations suggest supernova explosions of the Universe’s first stars scattered the ingredients for rocky planets only 100…
Fast blue optical transients still defy explanation
Sky surveys keep catching a kind of cosmic explosion that astronomers can’t explain. They call them fast blue…
New research reveals massive stars both exploded in tandem
‘A rare opportunity’ The discovery may offer insight into binary systems composed of massive stars. “This system provides…
Many black holes had past lives, new research shows | MIT News
When a star dies, a black hole is born. This has been the textbook origin story for most…
New Supernova Study Confirms Universe’s Expansion is Still Accelerating
A fresh analysis of Type Ia supernovae overturns a controversial 2025 claim that cosmic expansion is slowing. Type…
Ghostly neutrinos come into focus as China’s Juno underground detector logs first high‑precision results
First scientific results from Juno neutrino detector Most precise measurements yet of two neutrino aspects These subatomic particles…
A supernova remnant may have been discovered in the Milky Way
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An image showing the supernova SN 1993J. Thanks to the Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers…
Astronomers May Have Found Supernova Remnant near Milky Way’s Central Black Hole
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton satellite, astronomers identified a possible remnant of ancient stellar explosion…
Jupiter Accelerates Electrons to Near-Light Speed, Offering Clues to Cosmic Ray Origins
The giant planet’s bow shock isn’t just deflecting the solar wind, it’s acting as a powerful particle accelerator,…
Astronomers may have discovered one of the rarest explosions in the universe
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An illustration showing a neutron star and another star. By studying a supernova that…
Astronomer Deciphers Crab Pulsar’s Zebra Stripes
New research from the University of Kansas untangles a decades-old astrophysical puzzle, showing how competing forces — gravity’s…
Webb Identifies Supernova Progenitor Star in NGC 1637
Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have for the first time identified the progenitor of a…