That the universe is expanding has been known for almost a hundred years now, but how fast? The exact rate of that expansion ...

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A burst of light in the deep sky is doing something it should not be able to do. It looks like one supernova, but it shows up ...

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The universe is almost 13.8 billion years old, but every now and then, astronomers detect echoes from its distant past. One such occasion occurred earlier in 2025, when NASA scientists reported ...

Astronomers say one of the universe’s largest stars has dramatically changed since 2014, possibly entering a rare final phase that could end in a spectacular supernova explosion.

A small, seemingly technical assumption baked into the way astronomers standardize Type Ia supernovae may be responsible for the growing tension between different measurements of dark energy. New data ...

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An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), detecting a supernova – the explosive death of a massive star – at ...

Earlier this year, a powerful gamma-ray burst traveled through space from a very distant source in the cosmos. The explosion was traced back to the early universe, just millions of years after the Big ...