Ostriker is responsible for groundbreaking discoveries that forever changed the way astronomers think about what the universe ...

Researchers link two ancient mass extinctions to nearby supernova explosions, which may have damaged Earth's atmosphere and triggered global biodiversity loss. A new study suggests that at least two o ...

While investigating the impact of a recent supernova on life on Earth, a team of UCSC astronomers found an intriguing ...

The oldest naked eye star yet found still provides stellar theorists with key data on the earliest epochs of our Milky Way.

Just 150 light-years from Earth, a team of astronomers has identified an exceptional binary system. These two stars, ...

Astronomers have found a pair of chunky white dwarf stars—think of them as superdense stellar leftovers—spinning closely ...

"This could potentially change our understanding of the history of the three-body interaction between the two Magellanic ...

A pair of white dwarfs, located just 150 light-years from Earth, appears doomed to die in a type 1a supernova that will shine ...

Leading this quest is the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a global collaboration that maps the universe's 3D large-scale structure by measuring redshifts of tens of millions of celestial ...

Leading this quest is the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a global collaboration involving over 70 institutions.

The event will be ten times brighter than our Moon in the night sky, but never fear, it won't happen for another 23 billion ...