Webb’s sensitive infrared observations helped in detecting and distinguishing the fading light of the explosion from its ...

Rare exploding stars billions of times brighter than our sun have overturned existing theories on how stars die, according to astronomers at Queen's University Belfast. The scientists have used some ...

Learn more about the supernova, which is more than a billion years older than the previous record-holder.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been produced by the explosion of a massive star just 730 million years after the Big ...

PARIS: An immensely powerful flash detected earlier this year was created by a massive star exploding when the universe was just five percent of its current age, astronomers said on Tuesday. The flash ...

Astronomers have discovered some of the largest explosions ever recorded in the Universe. Writing in the journal Science Advances, experts say the blasts give out ten times as much energy in one year ...

Einstein once said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it's comprehensible. Well, yes, if you're an ingenious physicist, but for me, the most incomprehensible thing is that ...

For decades, almost every scientist has agreed that the universe began in an enormous explosion known as the Big Bang. But one group of researchers now controversially claims that everything we think ...

The universe’s expansion might not be accelerating but slowing down, a new study suggests. If confirmed, the finding would upend decades of established astronomical assumptions and rewrite our ...

The bestselling card game that RIT alumnus Elan Lee ’98 (computer science) created nearly 10 years ago is exploding into a universe. Exploding Kittens, the animated series based on the game, premiered ...

For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to be true.