Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

For every galaxy that's visible from Earth, there are nine smaller ones that we can't see, even with all the technology we've ...

"This was many times more energetic than any similar event and more than any known explosion powered by the collapse of a ...

It's the last clearly observed supernova in the Milky Way, Gassel said.

Bigger than Hubble and launching as soon as 2029, the Lazuli Space Observatory would be the first-ever full-scale private ...

You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us.

Astronomers have created a detailed forecast of where they expect to observe future stellar explosions in a nearby galaxy, ...

Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, ...

A s the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to peer into the origins of our universe, it’s delivering a steady stream ...

This cloud is a window into the dark Universe,” study co-author and Space Telescope Science Institute (STCScl) team member ...

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

A research team led by Caltech may have just discovered the first-ever superkilonova, a cosmic phenomenon in which a star explodes twice in violently different ways. Their analysis of a series of ...