The most recent nearby supernova, SN 1987A, was in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Milky Way’s youngest known supernova is ...

It's difficult to overstate just how surprisingly early to the party this water may have been. “This suggests that water, the ...

The Vela explosion stands out as the most dramatic example, occurring when our planet was emerging from the last ice age around 13,000 years ago.

In the heart of distant galaxies, astronomers have witnessed the most violent stellar death throes ever recorded.

The researchers behind the paper identified the object as a galactic supernova remnant—an expanding cloud of debris that forms in the aftermath of the exploding death of a star. The object ...

It looks like an alien world, or a floating snow globe suspended in space. But this perfect sphere, hiding in our Milky Way ...

ASKAP telescope discovered Teleios, a perfectly spherical radio-only object in Milky Way with diameter up to 157 light-years.

Astronomers have spotted something remarkable hiding in the depths of the Milky Way—a nearly perfect circle formed from the debris of an ... the most symmetrical supernova remnants ever found.

Then, when the supernova finally happens ... These magnetic fields take any random subatomic particles — the debris in the shell — and accelerate them, bouncing them back and forth within the shock ...

A never-before-seen type of giant space explosion – the biggest bangs since the Big Bang – has been accidentally captured by the Gaia space telescope.

Astronomers have spotted something remarkable hiding in the depths of the Milky Way—a nearly perfect circle formed from the debris of an exploded star. Known as Teleios, from the Greek word meaning ...

Haliburton is no one’s idea of an N.B.A. superstar. He sometimes disappears in big games. And yet, in the most high-pressure ...