The handheld particle detector CosmicWatch is roughly the size of a box of animal crackers. Every time a muon passes through ...

Astronomers have created a detailed forecast of where they expect to observe future stellar explosions in a nearby galaxy, ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to detect millions of exploding vampire stellar remnants called "white dwarfs," shedding ...

Astronomers have obtained remarkably detailed images of two stellar explosions -- called novae -- just days after they began.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. A star's spectacular death in the constellation Taurus was ...

Brad E Tucker receives funding from the Australian Research Council and ACT Government. What is the universe made of? This question has driven astronomers for hundreds of years. For the past quarter ...

Alex Filippenko is the kind of guy who brings a telescope to a party. True to form, at a soiree on May 18 this year, he wowed his hosts with images of star clusters and colorful galaxies — including ...

James Webb has spotted the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding just 730 million years after the Big Bang, offering ...

When massive stars or other stellar objects explode in the Earth's cosmic neighborhood, ejected debris can also reach our solar system. Traces of such events are found on Earth or the Moon and can be ...

The largest data release of relatively nearby supernovae (colossal explosions of stars), containing three years of data is publicly available via the Young Supernova Experiment (YSE). Celestial ...