Astronomers have watched a massive star vanish in the night sky, only to be replaced by a ... of a type of stellar collapse ...

"There are trillions of stars in the universe, and about every second, one of them explodes." ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Supernova SN 2023ixf in Messier 101 as captured on May 21, 2023 by ...

It views about a fifth of the sky at a time. “It would be a real shame if a supernova went off tomorrow and we missed an opportunity to detect the axion,” Safdi added. “It might not come ...

A partial solar eclipse. Numerous eye-catching planetary get-togethers. Saturn's rings perform a vanishing act. In the ...

Jupiter will be at its brightest and most visible in the night sky on Saturday. It will be almost as bright as Venus, and ...

This week, three bright planets are making that case to be this year's “Star of Bethlehem” or "Christmas Star," with Jupiter, ...

Southern Arizona’s dark skies and its astronomy community are a huge part of the attraction for Shumaker, an avid amateur ...

And here's some good news to help you sleep at night: There are no known supernova candidates within 30 light-years of Earth. The nearest candidate, Spica, is about 250 light-years away ...

They have even proposed a name for their full-sky gamma-ray satellite constellation -- the GALactic AXion Instrument for Supernova, or GALAXIS. "I think all of us on this paper are stressed about ...