A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

On March 15, 2024, a space-based observatory detected bursts of low-energy X-rays from deep in the ancient universe, ...

Recent research led by a team at Portsmouth University and the United Arab Emirates University suggests that water began ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to revolutionize our understanding of the cosmos by detecting millions of exploding stars — Type Ia supernovae — over the next decade. These brilliant explosions ...

Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of what the universe looked like in the moments before it rapidly changed ...

Scientists have uncovered the long-sought mechanism behind low-field magnetars, showing that supernova fallback material ...

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New findings risk turning the tension into a crisis, scientists say.

The early universe experienced a phase of rapid expansion, known as inflation. For decades, cosmologists assumed that this expansion was powered by a new entity in the universe, known as the inflaton.

China Einstein Probe EP astronomical satellite has for the first time in human history detected soft X-ray signals from an ...

Supernovas in the early universe just hit different. Especially when the stars that exploded was a stellar monster 20 times the mass of the sun. This supernova, detected as part of the JWST ...