A case of astronomical fratricide is doomed to end in a fiery supernova bright enough to be spotted from Earth during the day ...

Columbia Professor Brian Metzger helped other astronomers interpret their observations of the unexpected stellar event.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been ...

The universe may have staged a cosmic double act, an explosion within an explosion, hinting at a new way the heaviest ...

The Webb space telescope observed a supernova that took place when the universe was 730 million years old, setting a new ...

Astronomers have sighted the oldest known stellar explosion, dating back to when the universe was less than a billion years ...

Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the ...

The JetBlue flight was headed from Cancun to Newark on Oct. 30, when it fell out of the sky for no apparent reason in a ...

Learn more about the supernova, which is more than a billion years older than the previous record-holder.

Supernova is about to happen as the two stars colliding each other will create a bright light visible from the Earth.

A new research paper, published in the Science Advances journal, has postulated that rocky planets like ours may be far more ...

"This observation also demonstrates that we can use Webb to find individual stars when the universe was only 5% of its ...