In recent years, whenever astronomers have gazed into the night sky, they’ve noticed something peculiar: Some of its massive stars—the true titans of the cosmos—appear to be missing. The largest of ...

Astronomers have discovered the first radio signals from a unique category of dying stars, called Type Ibn supernovae, and these signals offer new insights into how massive stars meet their demise.

What if we tell you that researchers have found something interstellar buried in the ice in Antarctica? One possibility is the plot of The Thing; the other is a mystery that has puzzled scientists for ...

Scientists have just managed to reproduce a nuclear reaction that had never been observed directly before. The experiment focuses on p-nuclei, unusual proton-rich isotopes that do not fit into the ...

Scientists studying ancient Antarctic ice have discovered new evidence that Earth is currently traveling through a cloud of ...