Maybe music artist Moby was right, and “we are all made of stars.” New research suggests the calcium in our teeth and bones came from star explosions. Researchers from Northwestern University looked ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Composite gri image of NGC 4388 showing SN 2023fyq, captured by the Las Cumbres Observatory on August 11, 2023. White tick marks ...

How can artificial intelligence (AI) help astronomers identify celestial objects in the night sky? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as an international team ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. My hypothesis is that remnants of a supernova – an exploding star – had an impact on the Earth’s past climate, causing global ...

Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar—a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star—and confirmed that it's the power source behind some of the brightest exploding stars in the ...

Scientists have for the first time peered inside a dying star as it exploded in a supernova, gaining not just unprecedented views of its layers, but more so, insight into the process of stellar ...

A new discovery about what happens when a supernova – an exploding star – and a black hole collide could change the way scientists understand the lives and deaths of stars. The finding was the first ...

What can imaging supernovae (plural for supernova) explosions teach astronomers about their behavior and physical characteristics? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to ...

Astronomy on Tap St. Louis is back on June 14 for a night of cosmic fun! Join us for a public science event featuring exciting space talks, interactive trivia, and prizes – no science background ...

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.