Astronomers have their eyes on a new ultrabright explosion in space: a Type II supernova in the Pinwheel Galaxy (also known as M101). A Type II supernova is the catastrophic end to a massive star's ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of astronomers has captured an unprecedented, ethereal view of the Crab Nebula. "The JWST’s sensitivity and spatial resolution allow us to ...

A glowing hand stretches across the cosmos, with its palm and fingers sculpted from the wreckage of a massive stellar explosion. The eerie structure is part of the nebula MSH 15-52, powered by pulsar ...

For as long as humans have been peering upward into the speckled black of night, the sky has exhibited remarkable stability. The seemingly countless stars in our Milky Way obediently hold their places ...

Star Gazers host Trace Dominguez breaks down the 5 different types of nebulae. Star Gazers host Trace Dominguez breaks down the 5 different types of nebulae: emission, reflection, planetary, supernova ...

In the year 1181 AD, a new bright point of light as luminous as the planet Saturn appeared to Chinese and Japanese skygazers for a little more than six months before disappearing. Hundreds of years ...

Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are eager to crack open cosmic crab meat. They have comprehensively analyzed the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located 6,500 light-years away in ...

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In August 1181, astronomers in China and Japan witnessed a bright “guest star” in the night sky that we now know to have been a supernova—one of just a handful of recorded supernovae in our Milky Way ...

SN 2023ixf is the closest supernova to Earth in more than a decade — and the perfect excuse for intelligent aliens to get our attention, new SETI research suggests. When you purchase through links on ...

An image from NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory shows a glowing hand stretching across the cosmos with its palm and fingers sculpted from the wreckage of a massive stellar explosion. When you purchase ...