Astronomers may have discovered one of the clearest examples yet of a rare "pair-instability" supernova. It is a catastrophic ...

A new method could improve cosmology research by analyzing supernovae together with the galaxies that host them.

According to an MSU press release, Jaspreet Singh Randhawa, a Mississippi State assistant professor of physics, has received ...

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 ...

In their study, the astronomers found that a supermassive black hole’s outer disk and torus could foster this cumulative ...

In recent years, whenever astronomers have gazed into the night sky, they’ve noticed something peculiar: Some of its massive stars—the true titans of the cosmos—appear to be missing. The largest of ...

Maybe music artist Moby was right, and “we are all made of stars.” New research suggests the calcium in our teeth and bones came from star explosions. Researchers from Northwestern University looked ...