Biggest Supernova Dataset Yet Challenges Dark Energy Theory
Type Ia supernovae are powerful stellar explosions that occur when a white dwarf is pushed into a thermonuclear…
Scientists Say the Universe Isn’t Slowing Down After All
The universe is still speeding up, scientists say, keeping dark energy and its mysterious role in cosmic expansion…
Fast blue optical transients still defy explanation
Sky surveys keep catching a kind of cosmic explosion that astronomers can’t explain. They call them fast blue…
Many black holes had past lives, new research shows | MIT News
When a star dies, a black hole is born. This has been the textbook origin story for most…
New Supernova Study Confirms Universe’s Expansion is Still Accelerating
A fresh analysis of Type Ia supernovae overturns a controversial 2025 claim that cosmic expansion is slowing. Type…
Ghostly neutrinos come into focus as China’s Juno underground detector logs first high‑precision results
First scientific results from Juno neutrino detectorMost precise measurements yet of two neutrino aspectsThese subatomic particles can pass…
A supernova remnant may have been discovered in the Milky Way
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An image showing the supernova SN 1993J. Thanks to the Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers…
Astronomers may have discovered one of the rarest explosions in the universe
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An illustration showing a neutron star and another star. By studying a supernova that…
World’s largest neutrino detector to track supernova blasts
The world’s largest neutrino detector just got even more powerful after scientists successfully deployed six new strings of…
Is Betelgeuse about to explode into a supernova? Astronomers finally have an answer
Between late 2019 and early 2020, the red supergiant Betelgeuse showed signs of weakening that led many to…
NASA’s 25-Year Timelapse Shows How a Supernova Remnant Grows
A new NASA timelapse was two and a half decades in the making. What makes the timelapse of…
Supermassive black hole on a ‘collision course’ with the Milky Way | Science | News
A supermassive black hole residing within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) – a satellite galaxy – is on…