A research team at the , Academia Sinica (ASIAA) has achieved groundbreaking insights into the physics of supernova ...

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In February 2024, scientists on Earth detected a powerful radio blast from outer space. Seeking to discover where it had come ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...

Water is the essence of life. Every living thing on Earth contains water within it. The Earth is rich with life because it is ...

Could time itself actually explain our universe's expansion? Our current cosmological model—known as lambda cold dark matter, ...

The young Universe witnessed supernovae of unprecedented violence, marking the end of life for colossal stars. One such explosion, observed using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), offers ...

Supernovae are one of the most useful events in all of astronomy. Scientists can directly measure their power, their spin, ...

New ground- and space-based infrared observations are giving astronomers a better handle on the true populations of red ...

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Supernovae—collapsing stars that explode outward—are thought to be generators of gravitational waves, though none have yet been definitively detected by the gravitational wave interferometers ...

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