As the new year unfolds, January 3, 2026, will present a captivating celestial event: the first full moon of the year, known as the Wolf Moon. This extraordinary sight will reach its peak fullness at ...

Hubble reveals a chaotic spiral galaxy whose close encounter with a neighbor has ignited a spectacular burst of star birth.

A spectacular supermoon and the first meteor shower of the new year will soon appear in the California night sky. The ...

January 2026 full moon is set to usher in the new year. Here's when it rises and why it is called the "Wolf Moon".

A new study questions dark energy's role in the universe's acceleration, suggesting it may be weakening instead.

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

A black fungus thriving inside Chernobyl’s reactor could help shield astronauts from deadly space radiation. Here’s how ...

Red giant stars are known to have stellar winds far more powerful than those of the Sun. It was thought that the light these stars produce powered the winds, pushing grains of dust made up of carbon ...

Parents are being warned that personal care products sold at Target, Walmart and on Amazon have been recalled over fears that they could cause deaths. Florida-based Plantimex recalled 50,000 bottles ...

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar explosion — or any other type of normal stellar explosion." When you purchase ...

Gravitational wave observatories have been studying black holes that are in the right range to be the source of these LFBOTs. So far, though, no black hole collision has been seen with light-based ...

Astronomers at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan have teamed up on research that's taken the highest-resolution images to date of star explosions called novae (the plural of ...