Scientists expect new insights into galaxies, exploding stars, the nature of dark matter and more. Rubin is expected to image ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can explode not once, but twice before fading forever. Using the European Southern ...

Citizen scientists using the Kilonova Seekers platform spotted a stellar flash 2,500 times brighter than before, allowing astronomers to identify the exploding cataclysmic variable GOTO0650 within ...

A star could be about to become visible in the night sky in a once-every-80-years explosion. Here’s how to easily find T ...

Informed by science from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and astronomers worldwide, this “documentary that you can walk through” visualizes the cosmos in a 3-D introduction to the universe ...

Astronomers have captured the clearest-ever close-up images of two exploding stars, events known as novae, within days of their eruption. These detailed images show that such explosions are far more ...

In a groundbreaking development, a team of astronomers, in collaboration with citizen scientists, has uncovered a new and exciting type of exploding star, GOTO0650, marking a major achievement in both ...

What can imaging supernovae (plural for supernova) explosions teach astronomers about their behavior and physical characteristics? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to ...