For centuries, scientists have puzzled over globular clusters, the dense star systems that orbit galaxies without dark matter. Using ultra-detailed simulations, researchers recreated their origins and ...

NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN footage of the Sun shows incredible towering eruptions exploding into the darkness of space. It was ...

ESA's Proba-3 mission, made up of twin spacecraft capable of aligning to create artificial eclipses, has captured "rare" footage of three solar prominences erupting from the sun's mysteriously hot ...

Astronomers have turned a famous star explosion into a 25‑year time‑lapse, using a NASA telescope to watch the superheated gas race through space and slam into its surroundings. The new study using ...

Jailbreaking a video game console is a big deal: Once hackers can do it, they can push their hardware to perform actions it wasn't originally programmed for. The latest generation of video game ...

Every year on January 6th, Christians who follow the Julian calendar celebrate epiphany, a holiday marking the visit of the Magi to the baby Jesus. But while the occasion holds deep religious ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. artist's impression of a superkilonova A research team led by Caltech may have just discovered the first-ever superkilonova, a ...

"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 ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been produced by the explosion of a massive star just 730 million years after the Big ...

Supernovae aren't one of the JWST's main science themes, but the perceptive telescope is full of surprises. Recently, it pinpointed a single star in a galaxy when the universe was only about 730 ...

Earth may owe some of its properties to a nearby star that blew up just as the solar system was forming. This pattern, which saw a supernova bubble envelop the sun and shower it with cosmic rays, may ...

Theologians, historians and astronomers have debated the Biblical story for centuries. "The Adoration of the Magi" by Guiseppe Chiari (1654-1727). The Virgin Mary, seated on the left and turned to the ...