The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a supernova-hosting galaxy located about 600 million light-years ...

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 ...

Measuring distances across the universe is much more challenging than measuring distances on Earth. Is a brighter star closer to Earth than another, or is it just emitting more light? To make ...

Not quite Pop III stars, but with very low metallicity. When the smaller stars died, they exploded as typical supernovae, but when the large stars died, they exploded as brilliant pair-instability ...

For the first time, astronomers have traced a fast radio burst (FRB) to the outskirts of an ancient, dead, elliptical galaxy—an unprecedented home for a phenomenon previously associated with ...

Hubble Captures a Distant Supernova The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking image of a supernova and its ...

Worlds with liquid water could have formed just 200 million years after the big bang from the remains of the earliest ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Today, this collaboration, named the "Zwicky Transient Facility" (ZTF), announces that it has made over 10,000 detections of cosmic supernovae, by far the largest census ever conducted. The goal is to ...

Studying the universe with type Ia supernovae Type Ia supernovae, the explosive deaths of white dwarf stars, have long served as one of cosmology's most powerful tools. These stellar events occur ...

A major scientific breakthrough is anticipated with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, currently under construction on Cerro ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning image of a galaxy in the constellation Gemini, hosting a supernova named SN ...