The cosmos might be playing a different game than we thought. Scientists have spent decades believing our universe was ...

A new study casts doubt on the universe’s accelerating expansion, suggesting dark energy might be weakening over time.

Whether the Universe will 'end' at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity's cosmic ...

One of the biggest questions in the scientific world right now revolves around something we can't see, and can't directly detect in any other way either. Based on the movements of galaxies, ...

Scientists have revealed for the first time a jaw-dropping early view of an exploding supernova. Observations with the ...

I was exploding with excitement to ask my friend Guy Worthey about supernovas. He’s an astronomer at Washington State University. He told me a supernova is a very energetic explosion in space. There ...

The powerful space telescope uncovered 80 early and distant star explosions in a patch of sky the size of a grain of rice. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

In 1998, astrophysicists discovered that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, attributed to a mysterious entity called dark energy that makes up about 70% of our universe. This ...

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, B. Frye (University of Arizona), R. Windhorst (Arizona State University), S. Cohen (Arizona State University), J. D’Silva (University of ...

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Through a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, three different moments in a far-off supernova explosion were captured in a single snapshot by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The light from the ...

In the culmination of a decade’s worth of effort, the DES collaboration of scientists analyzed an unprecedented sample of more than 1,500 supernovae classified using machine learning. In 1998, ...