Astronomers have strengthened long-standing predictions that massive runaway stars could have originated in binary pairs, and ...

The Pelican Nebula is located in the constellation Cygnus, the swan.

In our galaxy, a supernova explodes about once or twice each century. But historical astronomical records show that the last ...

When young stars mix with neutron stars, things get messy.

The universe is full of spectacular sights, from aurora on Earth and Jupiter to the solar flares that cause them, to distant ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to head out in the evening sometime soon and point a telescope at the Crab Nebula, which lies in the constellation Taurus ...

Astronomers evaluate how the Vera C. Rubin Observatory can detect and localize the next Milky Way core-collapse supernova using neutrino alerts and optical surveys.

A doctoral student recreated a tiny piece of the universe in a bottle to investigate the chemistry that led to life on Earth.

The process broke down the chemical compounds, forming new elements—carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen—essential components for life. The newly minted homebrew space dust settled in a thin layer ...

The next Milky Way supernova may not surprise astronomers at all. According to a recent study available on the arXiv preprint server, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, ahead of its decade-long Legacy ...