There is growing controversy over recent evidence suggesting that a mysterious force known as dark energy might be changing ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

Learn more about the supernova, which is more than a billion years older than the previous record-holder.

For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to be true.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been produced by the explosion of a massive star just 730 million years after the Big ...

"We've been waiting to reach this point for a long time." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Using the largest catalog of exploding ...

Using the largest catalog of exploding white dwarf vampire stars ever gathered has provided further evidence that dark energy, the mysterious force accelerating the expansion of the universe, is ...

Physicists think we could see such an explosion in the next 10 years - and it would 'revolutionize physics and rewrite the history of the universe'. This artist’s concept takes a fanciful approach to ...