In recent years, whenever astronomers have gazed into the night sky, they’ve noticed something peculiar: Some of its massive stars—the true titans of the cosmos—appear to be missing. The largest of ...

The bestselling card game that RIT alumnus Elan Lee ’98 (computer science) created nearly 10 years ago is exploding into a universe. Exploding Kittens, the animated series based on the game, premiered ...

An international team of scientists has uncovered new clues about how stars lived and died billions of years ago by studying ...

A unified solution: Comprehensive models The new study tackles this problem by modeling everything at once: supernova explosions, the galaxies that host them, the dust that dims and reddens their ...

See what would happen if every black hole in the universe exploded at once. Trump Revokes TPS, Citing Fraud Concerns Why Erin Andrews’s Comments About Her Sports Career Are Going Viral on Thanksgiving ...

Artist’s conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk that is wobbling, or precessing, because of the effects of general relativity. Some models of magnetars suggest that high-speed jets ...

Why it matters: GRBs let astronomers study the early universe, revealing how the first stars lived, died, and seeded space with heavy elements. The big challenge: These explosions appear unpredictably ...

The universe’s expansion might not be accelerating but slowing down, a new study suggests. If confirmed, the finding would upend decades of established astronomical assumptions and rewrite our ...

Astronomers have caught a massive star exploding just moments after the universe emerged from the cosmic dark ages, shedding light on how the first stars were born and how they die. When stars run out ...