That the universe is expanding has been known for almost a hundred years now, but how fast? The exact rate of that expansion ...
A small, seemingly technical assumption baked into the way astronomers standardize Type Ia supernovae may be responsible for the growing tension between different measurements of dark energy. New data ...
In A Nutshell A massive star in the Andromeda Galaxy faded by more than 10,000 times over a decade and vanished from view, ...
He came up with a new one, called the Late-Transition Interacting Thawer (LTIT) model, which models how dark energy could "thaw" after a certain amount of time after the universe started and is slowly ...
Astronomers have witnessed a rare cosmic event: a massive star that didn’t explode in a spectacular supernova, but instead ...
The world’s largest neutrino detector just got even more powerful after scientists successfully deployed ...
An international team of astronomers has conducted photometric and spectroscopic observations of a recently discovered ...
A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a ...
An artist’s illustration depicts silicon, argon and sulfur releasing from a massive star. - Adam Makarenko/W. M. Keck Observatory Astronomers have observed what they are calling a new type of ...