The Cassiopeia A supernova remnant reveals that massive exploding stars can forge far more of life's essential ingredients ...

"This observation also demonstrates that we can use Webb to find individual stars when the universe was only 5% of its ...

The bright binary star system V Sagittae will flare up multiple times before finally going supernova within the next 100 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope and other international observatories have spotted a 13-billion-year-old supernova. On Tuesday ...

Astronomers have sighted the oldest known stellar explosion, dating back to when the universe was less than a billion years ...

When a massive star dies, astronomers expect a familiar chemical script: hydrogen and helium on the outside, heavier elements ...

The winners were named Friday, Dec. 5, for the 11th annual Parrish Healthcare Stars of Space Coast Awards to honor “stellar work” in helping residents.

Some of the elements used by living systems are far more abundant in Cassiopeia A than we thought, hinting that some parts of our galaxy might be more suitable for life than others ...

For the first time, scientists have made a clear X-ray detection of chlorine and potassium in the wreckage of a star using ...

Researchers from Kyoto University and Meiji University have led the quest to understand the origins of elements and the ...

Berkeley and elsewhere have performed spectroscopic and photometric study of a peculiar supernova designated SN 2021ukt, ...