Supernovae aren't one of the JWST's main science themes, but the perceptive telescope is full of surprises. Recently, it ...

An immensely powerful flash detected earlier this year was created by a massive star exploding when the universe was just ...

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

Will the universe keep existing forever? An astrophysicist explains how scientists aren’t entirely sure, but they can make predictions.

Using the largest catalog of exploding white dwarf vampire stars ever gathered has provided further evidence that dark energy, the mysterious force accelerating the expansion of the universe, is ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New data involving millions of galaxies and luminous galactic cores is providing fresh evidence that the enigmatic and invisible cosmic force called dark energy - responsible ...

Physicists think we could see such an explosion in the next 10 years - and it would 'revolutionize physics and rewrite the history of the universe'. This artist’s concept takes a fanciful approach to ...

Many a puzzled British housewife waited anxiously last week for the world to blow to pieces. As these matrons sat in their comfortable homes, a quiet voice from the radio had told them that the ...

Stories from behind the scenes of science. How do scientists take abstract research findings that require well over a decade of training to understand and turn them into appealing books for a wider ...