Informed by science from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and astronomers worldwide, this “documentary that you can ...

Scientists working with material collected from asteroid Bennu have found a sticky, gum-like organic substance never before ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can explode not once, but twice before fading forever. Using the European Southern ...

Scientists have for the first time peered inside a dying star as it exploded in a supernova, gaining not just unprecedented views of its layers, but more so, insight into the process of stellar ...

What can imaging supernovae (plural for supernova) explosions teach astronomers about their behavior and physical characteristics? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to ...

According to an MSU press release, Jaspreet Singh Randhawa, a Mississippi State assistant professor of physics, has received ...

Dark matter, if it exists, is probably in the latter category. If hypothetical weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are real, their collisions with regular matter may have left fossil traces ...

A new method could improve cosmology research by analyzing supernovae together with the galaxies that host them.