"Honestly, it's been a little devastating," Kevin Hardegree-Ullman, a scientist at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the ...

Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will make the study of stars and galaxies more like the big data-sorting exercises of ...

Astronomers had long been suspecting that some stars do meet their end of life with a dual detonation and new images prove ...

An international team of scientists led by Rice University's Pengcheng Dai has confirmed the existence of emergent photons ...

Astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to peer into the early universe and uncover the ...

For the first time, JWST has discovered an exoplanet through direct imaging, revealing TWA 7 b, a Saturn-mass world.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists spotted thin and thick disks in galaxies as far back as 10 billion years ago ...

Monisha Ravisetti is Space.com's Astronomy Editor. She covers black holes, star explosions, gravitational waves, exoplanet discoveries and other enigmas hidden across the fabric of space and time.