New ground- and space-based infrared observations are giving astronomers a better handle on the true populations of red ...

Betelgeuse, one of the most luminous stars visible from Earth, continues to surprise astronomers. The red giant’s brightness ...

The Earth was ready for its close-up this year. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites, or GOES-16 satellites, captured several ...

A star is born. No ordinary star either. It was a supernova that exploded onto the global stage with 65 balls of the most electric batting ever seen on Boxing Day. Sam Konstas has arrived and made ...

The newfound pulsar, which is young and energetic, turns out to be associated with a supernova remnant known as SNR G336.7+0.5. The finding was detailed in a research paper published Dec.

which received the designation PSR J1631–4722. The newfound pulsar, which is young and energetic, turns out to be associated with a supernova ...

There’s Orion, with its obvious Orion’s Belt of three bright stars rising vertically, with blue Rigel and reddish Betelgeuse on ... Was it a comet, a supernova or a conjunction of two planets?

NGC 337’s portrait by Hubble reveals a galaxy alive with stars at different stages, from seasoned stars at its core to newcomers at its edges, with the highlight being supernova SN 2014cx, a ...

Rocket Lab launched a private Earth-observing radar satellite to orbit today (Dec. 21) on the company's final mission of a busy 2024. An Electron rocket lifted off from Rocket Lab's New Zealand ...

A 2020 image of Betelgeuse as ... October that described a supernova that appeared three times in the arc of a gravitational lens some 3.6 billion light-years from Earth. Gravitational lenses ...