For decades, the prevailing view has been that dark energy causes the universe’s expansion to accelerate indefinitely, potentially ending in a scenario known as the “Big Rip,” in which galaxies, stars ...

The scientific community is abuzz after new findings suggested that dark energy — the mysterious force driving the expansion ...

For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to be true.

The James Webb Space Telescope has turned up a world that looks more like a squeezed citrus fruit than a planet, a distorted ...

Astrophysicists are starting to treat a strange class of “undead” suns as potential tools rather than mere curiosities, ...

Baba Vanga, the late Bulgarian clairvoyant who passed away in 1996, continues to fascinate conspiracy theory enthusiasts ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

How common are Earth-like planets in the universe? When I started working on supernova explosions, I never imagined that my ...

Earth may owe some of its properties to a nearby star that blew up just as the solar system was forming. This pattern, which saw a supernova bubble envelop the sun and shower it with cosmic rays, may ...

A New Jersey-bound airplane that suddenly plunged thousands of feet in the air — sending 15 people to the hospital in October — was likely struck by cosmic rays from a star that exploded in another ...

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar ...