A Falcon 9 rocket carrying about 40 payloads, including NASA's Pandora exoplanet satellite, is scheduled to lift off from ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...

Astronomers have obtained remarkably detailed images of two stellar explosions -- called novae -- just days after they began.

New high-resolution images show that novae are anything but simple stellar fireworks. One exploded with multiple gas streams ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

Theologians, historians and astronomers have debated the Biblical story for centuries. "The Adoration of the Magi" by Guiseppe Chiari (1654-1727). The Virgin Mary, seated on the left and turned to the ...

A research team led by Caltech may have just discovered the first-ever superkilonova, a cosmic phenomenon in which a star explodes twice in violently different ways. Their analysis of a series of ...

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) has captured a stunning view of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A). Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, ...

Asmodee, distributor of many of the world's biggest board games, has acquired a 45% stake in Exploding Kittens Inc. Asmodee previously bought a 55% majority stake in the producer of party games back ...

This mash-up of data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals two galaxies mid-collision, with their spiral arms overlapping and bending toward their neighbors' ...

Take a journey to the James Webb Space Telescope's stunning view of giant galaxy cluster WHL0137-08. Credit: Space.com | zoom-in courtesy: NASA, ESA, CSA, Alyssa Pagan (STScI) / Acknowledgment: NSF's ...