According to scientists, red supergiant stars should produce more supernovas. But astronomers just aren’t spotting them. Here ...

When the first gravitational wave (GW) was detected back in 2015, scientists said they had opened a new window into the Universe. While most of astronomy is based on detecting electromagnetic energy, ...

New research explains why some black holes are missing, showing how exploding stars stop certain black holes from forming.

By tracking individual stars and exploding supernovas, astronomers discovered the strength of early ultraviolet glow ...

Nearly 4.5 million years ago, two enormous, blazing stars swung close to the solar system. They did not touch the sun, but they came close enough to leave a permanent mark on the thin mist of gas that ...

A team of nuclear physicists has pulled off something that, until recently, existed only in theoretical models and the ...

Scientists have just managed to reproduce a nuclear reaction that had never been observed directly before. The experiment ...

From a mountaintop in Chile, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is preparing to capture the most detailed, decade-long movie of the night sky ever attempted. With the world’s largest digital camera, the ...

Stephen Reynolds talks about his research in this video by Brantley Atkinson. An advanced satellite telescope launched by NASA is giving N.C. State astrophysicist Stephen Reynolds and other ...