The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large, complex observatory that studies the universe in infrared light, which is ...

The Pa 30 nebula study uncovers its complex morphology and confirms its origin from a historical supernova, highlighting ...

New research sets the most stringent limit yet on the mass of the graviton, suggesting it may indeed be massless as predicted ...

A 3-D map of the strange remains of a supernova seen in 1181 traces the odd tendrils of gas that jut out for several light-years in all directions.

A pair of cosmic eyes, menacing and unblinking, stare back at us from a staggering distance of 80 million light-years away, captured by the watchful lenses of both the NASA's Hubble and James Webb ...

Supernova SN 1181, a “zombie star" first observed in 1181, has recently resurfaced as a subject of interest for astronomers.

A quasar is the extremely bright core of a galaxy that hosts an active supermassive black hole at its center. As the black hole draws in surrounding gas and dust, it blasts out an enormous amount of ...

This one—called “Parker’s Star,” the remnant of the supernova SN 1181, named for the year it appeared in Earth’s skies—lies ...

When a supernova was seen glittering in the night sky for six months in 1181, it was so bright that Chinese and Japanese astronomers recorded it as a ...