Astronomers have long struggled to capture the true nature of stellar nova explosions. However, thanks to cutting-edge techniques, a team of scientists has finally been able to observe these cosmic ...

The blast may have been a kilonova — a type of neutron star merger — in the wake of a more traditional supernova.

Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) instruments, the U.S.

For a long time, the end of the Ice Age felt like a slow fading rather than a sharp break. Mammoths vanished. Old ways of ...

Scientists have precisely measured two unstable atomic nuclei that play a crucial role in explosive X-ray bursts on neutron stars. The results reveal faster nuclear reactions than previously thought, ...

A nuclear winter is a theoretical concept, but if the climate scenario expected to follow a large-scale nuclear war, in which smoke and soot from firestorms block sunlight, came to fruition, global ...

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Astronomers have released a rare time-lapse video showing the violent expansion of a dead star over two decades. The footage ...

NASA has released its longest-ever time-lapse from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, capturing the expanding remains of Kepler’s Supernova, one of the most powerful stellar explosions ever witnessed by ...