As part of this, the research team calculated the supernova rate within 20 parsecs of the Sun, or approximately 65 ...

Late on Thursday night and into the early hours of Friday, the full moon turned a beautiful reddish color as it drifted ...

(NASA Goddard via SWNS ... which occurred 372 and 445 million years ago respectively. The red supergiant star Betelgeuse was captured by the Herschel Space Observatory. There are only two nearby ...

Exploding stars known as supernovas may have sparked mass extinctions that wiped out up to 85% of animals on Earth.

Scientists have captured a special kind of radio signal from a galaxy that’s nearly 9 billion light-years away from the Earth ...

Why Do Black Holes Form? Black holes form when a huge amount of matter is squeezed into a very small space. Cram enough ...

The universe is a vast and unpredictable place full of wonders and dangers that stir the human imagination. Among these celestial phenomena supernovae—massive stellar explosions—capture ... Read more ...

Following the 3,000th orbit of NASA's AWE (Atmospheric ... subclass of XRBs known as supergiant ... Stargazers in North and South America will be able to view a red-colored "blood moon" starting ...

Just over a day after blasting off, a SpaceX crew capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday, delivering the replacements for NASA's two stuck astronauts. Not long to go now ...

The red supergiant star Betelgeuse was captured by the Herschel ... a thousand years later as a superdense neutron star left behind by the stellar death. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/CXC et al. via SWNS) ...